WHEN THE LIGHTS WENT OUT

Looking back to 2020

(Our impact amidst COVID-19)

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Who we are

The Innovation Village is a launchpad for leading entrepreneurs and innovators working to solve our most pressing challenges using technology. We are an ecosystem builder at the heart of an interconnected network of entrepreneurs, academia, private sector, government, investors and innovators deepening the application of technology in powering socio-economic prosperity. At the Village, we bring the ecosystem together to be a catalyst for job creation by creating a path for entrepreneurs to grow their business. Our purpose is to deliberately grow innovation by putting in place a platform that challenges assumption, ignites thought and questions the status quo. In 2020, we launched our creative makerspace – MoTIV and administrative spaces in the Western, Eastern and Northern regions with offices in Mbarara, Jinja and Gulu respectively.

Our approach

In an effort to make innovation a predictable driver of growth, we cultivate innovators, entrepreneurs, startups, and enterprises focused on socio-economic transformation. We do this through;

Community

We fuel growth of game-changing founders, startups and enterprises that can positively transform societies and economies.

Venture Building

We provide the know-how needed to start, grow a digital business, levelling the playing field to diversify the technology landscape.

Innovation Programs

Our programmes target the most promising entrepreneurs, fast movers and new leaders to starting, growing and scaling their enterprises.

Tech + Data

Everything we do is founded on technology. We showcase tech, data, research and insights to accelerate the role technology plays in solving our most pressing challenges.

Capital

We back our most promising entrepreneurs through our 97 Fund and KAIN.

Our Impact amidst COVID-19

Our impact report explores the state of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Uganda in 2020 and then the work we do at The Innovation Village within this context. The impact made are driven by data from the activities we implemented during the year of 2020. As an ecosystem builder for entrepreneurs, we collect significant data points which we use to define our programmatic interventions going forward, as well as inform stakeholders on areas to focus on within the ecosystem. As such, we make recommendations on how various players within the ecosystem can make important contributions based on the opportunities, gaps and trends identified.

Last year was the most challenging transformation we have experienced as an organization but at the same time, we grew exponentially. One of our objectives at The Village is to lead with data. We have adopted numerous approaches to periodically collect data on outcome and impact indicators such that we are able to effectively measure the impact we have created among key beneficiaries.
  • Launched 4 hubs - our makerspace at MoTIV, and regional hubs in Mbarara, Jinja and Gulu.
  • Skilled up to 7195 youths in 2020 under the NextWave Program in partnership with the Mastercard foundation.
  • Our NextWave program in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation created 1041 jobs and led to the opening of 519 businesses in 2020.
  • In 2020, we had 60 events in our spaces at the Village bringing in a total attendance of over 2500 people.
  • There were over 2000 walk-ins to our spaces during the course of 2020.
  • Over 1000 people expressed interest in our accelerators in the last 6 months.
  • 401,243 PPE masks were produced by the MoTIV PPE factory to be accessed by the highly exposed Frontline Health workers in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • MoTIV’s product marketplace has been stocked with 379 products made locally in Uganda since launch in June 2020.

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