Building A Thriving Innovation Economy
Having understood the needs and opportunities in the African innovation ecosystem we are now better equipped to define our measures of success, show the impact of AfriLabs and of our member hubs and surface data which is critical for growth of the ecosystem.
Research, evidence and learning are crucial elements of building the unique pathway and niche of AfriLabs.
Over the next ten years we will:
Create robust datasets on our community Our community presents an invaluable resource of critical data, which we need to continuously harness to ensure that the network’s growth and strategic direction reflects the needs and priorities of the members. These datasets will be critical knowledge bases for our implementation of all our strategic pillars. This data will also be critical in enabling member hubs to understand and connect better with fellow network members. While the data we have continues to support our work and that of our hubs, we will ensure that the evidence we are constantly curating is relevant for the wider innovation community as well, especially where their work intersects with ours. We will ramp up knowledge mobilisation. The process and mechanisms by which we capture, share, and generate knowledge and learning across the different AfriLabs’ members and beyond will be critical in ensuring that AfriLabs adds up to more than the sum of its parts. Adopt a learning approach to all our work. We will continuously adopt a learning approach to our work, in the belief that relentless enquiry and constant reflection are critical to delivering effective programming and transformative impact. Our learning architecture embodies this fundamental principle of our way of working, and is being woven through all four of our strategic pillars. Co-create a monitoring, evaluation and learning framework for AfriLabs and our member hubs. Together with the national networks, our member hubs and partners, we will determine the markers of success that will determine the impact of our African and African focused hubs. We will design our hub monitoring and evaluation matrix and we will surface, share and amplify Africa’s innovation success stories from the grassroots to the major cities and everywhere in between. Design and build a knowledge portal Together with our partners, we will build a knowledge portal that will support and guide the work of hubs, innovators, entrepreneurs, donors, investors, governments, and researchers in their work across the African continent. We are working to ensure that engagements with the African innovation community are well informed and valuable for all involved. We will nurture research partnerships to support development of this evidence base to conduct research into urgent or important questions on innovation strategies across Africa. Our knowledge portal will be open to every African across the continent to contribute to and anyone who contributes to it will have access to benefit from it.
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