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What is COVIDaction Local Production & Local Solutions?
What is COVIDaction Local Production & Local Solutions?
*Your quick guide to the LPLS theme*
Chime Asonye
Feb 5, 2021
6 routes to building resilient local production systems via distributed manufacturing and circular…
6 routes to building resilient local production systems via distributed manufacturing and circular…
The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath has demonstrated the limitations of a reliance on global production systems and long-distance…
Ben Oldfrey
Jan 30, 2023
Meet the Innovators
How a makerspace is resolving critical pandemic gaps in Nigeria
How a makerspace is resolving critical pandemic gaps in Nigeria
When news of COVID-19 arrived in Nigeria, inventor Tochukwu Clinton Chukwueke, saw that import and export of medical supplies were going to…
Chime Asonye
Jul 22, 2021
Biogenics introduces local production of PPE in response to COVID-19 in Uganda
Biogenics introduces local production of PPE in response to COVID-19 in Uganda
Uganda introduced one of the tightest lockdowns in Africa, and yet the WHO has reported that a third wave of COVID-19 infections is having…
Nada Ibrahim
Jul 12, 2021
Turning water hyacinth into hand sanitiser to help protect people in Kenya
Turning water hyacinth into hand sanitiser to help protect people in Kenya
Chemistry teacher, Richard Arwa, had already embarked on the mission to garner the benefits of water hyacinth as a sustainable cooking fuel…
Anna Crawford
Jun 30, 2021
Ending maternal mortality: Zambian activist chronicles her story to support vulnerable women during…
Ending maternal mortality: Zambian activist chronicles her story to support vulnerable women during…
Interview with Muzalema Mwanza, co-founder of Safe Motherhood Alliance, a social enterprise improving safe births by developing life-saving…
Nada Ibrahim
Apr 29, 2021
Businesses in Kenya join forces to address one of COVID-19’s biggest challenges: PPE production…
Businesses in Kenya join forces to address one of COVID-19’s biggest challenges: PPE production…
COVIDaction social enterprises SilAfrica and Taka Taka Solutions came to us as a package. Both based in Kenya and witnessing the…
Chime Asonye
Apr 22, 2021
Digitising local production to meet community needs: Zener Technologies and Field Ready shed light…
Digitising local production to meet community needs: Zener Technologies and Field Ready shed light…
Interview with Ram Chandra Thapa, Co-founder of Zener technologies, Nepal and Ben Britton, International Lead at Field Ready
Ramon Michael
Apr 22, 2021
Salvaging Waste to Protect Lives in Nigeria During COVID-19
Salvaging Waste to Protect Lives in Nigeria During COVID-19
While considering ways to respond to a global pandemic, collecting trash might not seem like the most obvious path. Victor Boyle-Komolafe…
Chime Asonye
Feb 26, 2021
Rising from an earthquake to fight the pandemic in Nepal
Rising from an earthquake to fight the pandemic in Nepal
2020 saw COVID-19 spread worldwide, but the roots of technology solutions that are helping medical workers and citizens of Nepal respond…
Ramon Michael
Jan 15, 2021
Meet the Ugandan entrepreneur who is bringing AI to the COVID-19 fight
Meet the Ugandan entrepreneur who is bringing AI to the COVID-19 fight
Innovator Dr. William Wasswa and his team at Global Auto Systems have pivoted their business multiple times to address a wide range of…
Chime Asonye
Dec 11, 2020
Innovating during COVID-19 to reduce maternal and child mortality in Zambia
Innovating during COVID-19 to reduce maternal and child mortality in Zambia
Social entrepreneur, Muzalema Mwanza, was already working to support pregnant women and mothers in low-income communities when the…
Chime Asonye
Nov 13, 2020
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