EquiWater: Social Enterprises to Deliver Clean Water and Diversify Livelihoods
Co-design social enterprises with marginalised communities to access clean water and increase purchasing power in Somalia's urban slums.
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Idea
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Evaluation
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Collaboration
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Co-design social enterprises with marginalised communities to access clean water and increase purchasing power in Somalia's urban slums.
Train communities of internally displaced people in Somalia to harness existing local knowledge and innovation to improve homes.
Equipping vulnerable homes with low-cost roof water harvesting, tree saplings, and charcoal-efficient stoves.
Dear Chioma Ume and fellow experts!
Thank you for your challenging questions. Your questions concerned primarily our insight into the experiences and contexts of beneficiaries. The collaboration between Candlelight, which has two decades of deep experience of working with communities across Somaliland, and Mensch with expertise of community-driven innovation and facilitation across four continents allows us to leverage significant learning while also having sensitized our teams to the complexities and nuances that experiences and contexts bring with them.
We have used the opportunity of the impact phase to respond to your questions by refining our project idea further and thus have integrated our answers to you in the proposed idea above.
Look forward to the next phase! Best, Neysan
Have you been able to explore what impact the bus can have in a (probably) brief time it is in a given community and how it would follow up? Does the bus return after a number of months? What does the community require when the bus leaves? Is it enough to give them a space or could that just fall apart?
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