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ResilientAfrica Network

(RAN)

www.ranlab.org

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RAN• RAN is one of 7 university

development labs under the (HESN) OST of USAID

– RAN will bring together a network of 20 African universities in 16 countries

– Makerere (Lead), Stanford University (Innovations), Tulane University (Resilience), and CSIS as core partners

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Background

• Rationale for RAN: Although development efforts have saved lives, they have not sufficiently built resilience of target communities; the same shocks/stresses recur with similar consequences

• RAN seeks to break these negative cycles by tapping into the adaptive capacities of communities to develop solutions

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Theory of Change

‘The resilience of people and systems in Africa will be strengthened by leveraging knowledge, scholarship and creativity in RAN to incubate, test, and scale innovations that target capabilities and reduce vulnerabilities identified by an evidenced-based resilience framework for sub-Saharan Africa’………

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Methodology and Philosophy

• Resilience can be tackled through innovations• 2 approaches to sourcing innovations:– Acceleration of existing promising ideas– Ideation of new ideas

• Design thinking and Human centred design• Failure is good; failing fast is even better

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Objectives of RAN• Objective (1) Design resilience

framework for Sub-Saharan Africa

• Objective (2) Strengthen

resilience of communities through innovations

• Objective (3) Enhance resilience-related knowledge generation and sharing

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RAN definition ofResilience

• Resilience is the capacity of people and systems to mitigate, adapt to, recover and learn from shocks and stresses in a manner that reduces vulnerability and increases well-being.

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Stakeholder engagement, ownership,

Sustainability and institutionalization

 

Stakeholder engagement, ownership,

Sustainability and institutionalization

 

Step 3. Resilience Interventions

What innovations would most

effectively address resilience in this

community? 

Step 3. Resilience Interventions

What innovations would most

effectively address resilience in this

community? 

Step 1. Context AnalysisResilience of Whom, what, where and when?

 

 

Step 1. Context AnalysisResilience of Whom, what, where and when?

 

 

Step 2. Resilience Dimensions

What makes communities

capableWhat makes them

incapable? 

Step 2. Resilience Dimensions

What makes communities

capableWhat makes them

incapable? 

Step 4. EvaluationTo what extent did

interventions improve capacities and address

vulnerability?

Step 4. EvaluationTo what extent did

interventions improve capacities and address

vulnerability?

RAN’s resilience framework

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4 RILabs, 6 Resilience Themes

• RAN’s centres for ideation, development, and testing of innovations– Eastern Africa (Makerere, Gulu, Rwanda, Kinshasa, Muhimbili):

• Resilience to the effects of climate variability and chronic conflict

– West Africa (UDS-Tamale, Winneba, Mali, Senegal): • Resilience to the effects of rapid urbanization and food insecurity in marginal

populations

– Southern Africa (Pretoria, Limpopo, Lilongwe, Zimbabwe): • Resilience to food and income insecurity in HIV high burden communities

– Horn of Africa (Jimma, Addis, Benadir): • Resilience to the effects of drought and conflict

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Building the network

• A solid network of 14 university partners that cuts across 4 regions in Africa created to tackle resilience challenges

• Immense resource of over 100,000 students, faculty, scholars and brains

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Engagement of students, faculty and stakeholders

• RAN has started intense engagement of faculty and students at Central level and regional levels

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Generating the evidence base to inform innovations

• A massive data collection drive launched across Africa to develop a solid evidence base for RAN’s innovations agenda

• Starting with qualitative data collection on the community’s understanding of resilience, what makes them resilient and indigenous adaptation

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RAN’s approach to solutions will be driven by community needs......

What makes people resilient? What is the current state of vulnerability? Can we learn from the way communities

are adapting? What solutions do they propose?

Innovations agenda

Taken to RILabs, torn apart and built innovations with feedback

loops with community

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Understanding the university environments

• Understanding the environment in partner universities is crucial to understanding their role in resilience programming

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RAN’s innovation pipeline

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Thematic priority

Dimension 1

Dimension 2

Dimension 3

EvidenceQualitative

Quantitative

P1

P2

P3

P4

S1

S2

S3

S4

Developthrough a resilience

lens

Intervention 1

Intervention 2

More resilient

communities

From pathways to solutionsDesign thinking

Human-centred designRapid prototyping

Resilience InnovationTestingScaling

EVALUATION

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What is a resilience innovation?

• A ‘technology’ or ‘science based approach’ with the potential to demonstrably impact on a dimension of resilience in a community

• 3 ways of sourcing innovations– Existing ideas at prototype level, needing a ‘push’– Completely new ideas developed out of ‘ideation sessions

and human centred design processes’– Design and implementation of collaborative platform

projects

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At the centre of RAN’s interventions……

• The community

• 18 ‘test’ communities across Africa

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Examples of emerging ideas

• Matibabu: Revolutionising the diagnosis of Malaria• Unearthing the potential of earth-worms• Root IO (Radio in a box) – every phone owner is a

potential resilience broad-caster• Improved Push and Pull: Scaling a natural approach

to nuisance weed and pest repulsion• Low cost optimized solar pump to change farming in

semi-arid areas

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Next steps

• Resilience data has been analysed to feed into an intervention strategy process

• Each RILab is developing a set of evidence based intervention pathways and innovation challenges

• University faculty will mentor and nurture new ideas; successful ideas will be taken to scale in target communities

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RAN Team• Chief of Party: Prof. William Bazeyo• Deputy Chief of Party: Dr. Roy William Mayega• Executive Director Resilience: Prof. Ky Luu, Tulane• Senior Technical Advisor: Prof. David Serwadda• Director Innovations: Dr. Wanjiku Nganga• Director Resilience: Ms. Deb Elzie, Tulane• PI Stanford: Prof. James Fishkin• M&E Manager: Dr. Harriet Namata• Communications Manager: Ms. Harriet Adong• Engagement Manager: Ms. Deborah Naatujuna• Research Officer: Mr. Nathan Tumuhamye• RAN Administrator: Ms. Deborah Namirembe• EARILab Director: Dr. Dorothy Okello• EARILab Program Coordinator: Dr. Julius

Ssentongo• EARILab Innovations Officer: Ms. Carol Kamugira• EARILab Technical Officer: Ms. Sheila Agaba• EARILab Administrator. Ms. Ann Burugu

Other RILab teams•HoA RILab team led by Prof. Kifle•SA RILab team led by Prof. Lekan Ayo-Yusuf•WA RILab Team led by Mr. Denis Chirawurah