ABOUT
Communities for change
Impact Hub Harare facilitated a 6-month project, in 2018, which involved an intensive 8-week Communities for Change (C4C) workshop designed by MIT’s Presencing Institute (PI) using Theory U. This programme assisted in educating and mobilising communities and entrepreneurs in an action orientated innovation process to bring about social change in their communities with focus on the green and environmental sector. The Communities for Change programme offered participants the opportunity to go through the Theory U course which helps to reflect on self, challenges facing society and how a collective approach can bring about social change. Solutions for the challenges to be addressed only come about after consulting the individuals and communities that the solutions are meant for as well as stakeholders that will have a direct/indirect impact on the solution implementation.
SDG 7
SDG 12
Programme Background
The training included field trips for the participants to take the time to speak to individuals in the various communities as well as experts in the environmental sector.
The participants of the programme came up with two solutions to help combat the lack of clean water and access to electricity in most areas in Zimbabwe. The two solutions were a water filtration system and a biogas system. The programme participants built the prototypes that were set up at the Impact Hub Harare premises for the first round of testing before placing them in selected communities for the second round of testing in Mbare and Manyame Park.