Inspire100TZ Inception Meeting
What is inspire100? This was the first question I asked myself when I heard that term. It surely sounds motivational, inspiring like the title itself, and something to die for.
But i was lucky enough to finally attend the Inspire100 inception meeting which took place from the 3rd to 6th of April in the Mkwawa Arts Space headquarters, Iringa.
I came to realize that “Inspire100” is a project aiming at helping young adolescent girls and women from 15–35 years of age with a business idea or a running business in cooperation with digital technology (WEB 2.0). This project will take place in Iringa region for a duration of one year under Sahara Ventures and Grand Challenge Canada in cooperation with Mkwawa Arts Space and independent contractors.
This project will be so constructive to the society starting with the targeted group and the community at large since the project is targeting 100 young women who will receive different training on how to generate their business ideas in relation to digital world (WEB 2.0) some of them might be teen mothers, PLHIV or married women.
The program will focus on key six areas:
- Receiving the right SRHR information
• Involvement of male counterparts (fathers, husbands, and brothers etc)
• Access to SRHR youths friendly services
• SRHR Knowledge
• Entrepreneurship Skills
• Digital Inclusion
Also, during those 4 days of the inception meeting, I was able to understand the project widely, understand each and every department, their functioning areas, and the staff visited possible potential stakeholders of the project which was so effective.
The project will be held for a duration of one year in which there will be three phases but the overall project calendar will be as follows:
April to may 2018
Stakeholders meet up, program launching, call for ideas, judging and selections, and community radio campaigning.
June 2018
Project team workshop. This means that trainers, mentors, judges and team staff will be going through the boot camp and hack weekend curriculum, judging toolkit, as well as challenge statements.
July 2018
Inspire beginners (hack weekend)
This will be for screening ideas and pitching sessions.
August 2018
Inspire intermediates (Bootcamp)
This means team building, Problem identification, Ideation and deep diving into the SRH sector, Introducing digital tools, user centered design, and prototyping. Also, preparing presentations and pitching for the demo day.
September to December 2018
Inspire Advanced
This will be an accelerator, SRH mentor-ship with industrial expert. Technology tools application with an expert business development financial management mentor ship with an expert in design thinking, Value addition, branding and marketing mentor ship with an expert.
January to February 2019
In this time, there will be remote support and mentoring.
March to April 2019
This will be the time to close the project and learning its effectiveness.
So, all this is to say that these 4 days were highly potential to the staff as we are looking forward to the project launching.
