Stories + Projects
Check out some examples of how other HCD Connect community members are putting the methods and tools in the HCD Toolkit into action. When you're ready, add in your own experiences!
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In a USAID-funded project, IDEO.org and Water + Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) are adapting the Community Led Total Sanitation approach that has worked effectively in rural environments to an urban setting in Ghana by combining a digital mobile platform with offline community driven activities.
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As part of our IDEO.org Innovation Fund, we're working with Juhudi Kilimo to design new ways to provide technical training for farmers in rural Kenya.
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This project seeks to create a platform for an open dialogue, that will help the local staff and children at AMCC identify the problems that matter to them, create a clearer understanding of the surrounding limitations and help them recognize their true assists, empowering them to design effictive solutions for themselves.
Smallholder farmers are experimenting with alternative, sustainable techniques, sharing their results, and transforming a region.
- Semilla Nueva
- Story Location: Retalhuleu, Guatemala
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The newest iteration of the IDEO.org Clean Kumasi prototype is used to organize a sanitation week and community cleanup in Ghana.
- Jacqui Watts
- Uganda Rural Community Service Foundation (URCSF)
- Story Location: Kumasi, Ashanti, Ghana
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After 10 grueling (but awesome!) days in the field we are returning home with a wealth of knowledge about how information is shared in rural Kenya and some tangible learnings gained from our prototypes in the field.
- stacy barnes
- Story Location: Kericho, Kenya
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How do we empower a struggling children's home in Kenya to simultaneously overcome poverty, improve nutrition and enhance education opportunities for its residence? Our solution needs to be effective on a small scale, create capacity on the local level and be able to be scaled up over time.
- Rachael Stamps
- Agape Mercy Children's Center
- Story Location: Thika, Murang'a, Kenya
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IDEO.org is thrilled to partner with CGAP on another project on financial inclusion for low-income consumers - working with African telecom companies in promoting the adoption of mobile payment systems.
- Carla Lopez
- IDEO.org
- Story Location: Africa
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Me and my freinds took a bunch of school children out to learn ecology and it turned into a completele comprehensive science education program based on one thing- observation.
- Chandrakant Redican
- Vishwa Nirmala Vidya Mandir Jejuri
- Story Location: Jejuri, Maharashtra, India
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