A highlight of our recent notable activities
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Agency for Self-Reliance
Launch of Community Projects in Mayuge District and Community Co-Creation in Lamwo District
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‘Identify, incubate and bring to scale initiatives that promote sustainable self-reliance of communities in developing countries and break the cycles of dependence’
In order to progress from low income to middle- and high-income status, developing countries require substantial shifts in their approach to development interventions. This will involve substantial shifts in approaches to developing interventions that focus on key factors that will accelerate the leap-forward into socio-economic transformation. The ‘Agency for Self-Reliance’ buy-in at RAN is funded by USAID’s Centre for Development Research (CDR), as part of an agency-wide strategy to support interventions that will identify, incubate and bring to scale initiatives that promote sustainable self-reliance of communities in developing countries and break the cycles of dependence.
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Agency for Self-Reliance
Community Co-Creation in Mayuge District
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As part of this project’s work, part of the RAN Team including Natasha Kassami- Partner Engagements and Community Liaison Officer, Agnes Nyabigambo- Projects Manager, Anthony Ssebagereka- Research Officer, Tony Namugera- for Multimedia Support and Harriet Adong- Director Communications and Knowledge Management engaged community representatives in Mayuge District in community co-creation sessions to design innovative solutions geared at improving basic education in Mayuge.
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The 2020 RAN Virtual Innovation Katale
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Following the success of the 2019 RAN ICT Innovation Katale on July 24th 2020, a second edition of the event was held virtually via Zoom owing to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak. During this Virtual Innovation Katale, participants listened to and later engaged with 8 inspiring presentations/presenters. These presenters were female and male innovators sharing about their ventures which have benefitted and continue to benefit from incubation at RAN.
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The RAN Innovation Fireplace Digital Series-Episode 4
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For the fourth episode of the Digital Innovation Fireplace Series held on Monday, May 18, 2020, the ResilientAfrica Network took things up a notch, hosting Edgar Kasenene, a passionate and disruptive thinker to speak to the theme ‘Re-skilling and Creating New Value in an ‘Open’ World. During the session, Edgar spoke to the core of what it means to be an entrepreneur in the internet era. If you missed the live session, you can watch the recording via this link. We followed up with Edgar after the session to answer some of the questions raised by the session participants. Below are the responses he shared, which he also noted should serve as a ‘trigger’ for participants to think deeper and not answers to existing community challenges:
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COVID-19: Uganda’s Epi-Curve Monitor with Dr. Roy William Mayega
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Since Uganda confirmed its first COVID-19 case on 21 March 2020, the number of positive cases increased to 126 as of May 12, 2020, according to the Ministry of Health.
Fifty-six people have recovered, with no deaths registered to date. A total of 62,938 samples were tested by the Uganda Virus Research Institute as of May 12, 2020.
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RAN Innovation Fireplace-Digital Series Episode 2
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The last week of the month of April 2020 saw the RAN team host yet another session of the Innovation Fireplace online. This session was episode 2 of our Digital Series and it was held on Monday April 27, 2020 guided by the theme ‘Innovation towards ending the Gender Based Violence Pandemic‘. Amidst the current global coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), it has been noted that another pandemic, one that has existed for centuries, still persists and is even thriving amidst the enforced movement restrictions.
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