A progressive center for social innovation promoting the adoption of sustainable innovation solutions across Africa for the reduction of poverty, marginalization and loss of human dignity.
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We are an independent Centre for Social Innovation established with the initial support of the South African Breweries Foundation and the Bertha Foundation. Our goal is to promote systemic social change across all economic sectors through the adoption of contextualized development models. We seek to contribute towards aspiration 1 and 6: A prosperous Africa based on inclusive growth and sustainable development and An Africa, whose development is people-driven, relying on the potential of African people, especially its women and youth, and caring for children of the African Union’s Agenda 2063.
We pursue this goal by
Build a Community
We are building awareness on the relevance of social innovation and enterprise development. We want to bring together a community of change makers looking to move the needle.
Partnerships
We partner with diverse stakeholders including national and regional governments, private sector, civil society and community leaders. We seek to leverage each partners unique capabilities and experience to achieve our mutual developmental objectives.
Resource
Mobilization
We identify the resources needed for the successful delivery of development initiatives. We have accumulated a rich database of potential partners who we continuously engage and collaborate with to mobilise and efficiently utilise development resources.
Portfolio
Development
We design and develop locally relevant content such as models, research reports, training modules, case studies and publications.
Impact
Assessment
We are continuously evaluating the performance of our initiatives to ensure they deliver the impact our stakeholders expect.
Events
We conceptualize and host regular thematic gatherings, sensitization campaigns and capacity building workshops.
Build a more resilient continent driven by practical research in social innovation and enterprise development.
To inform and support the intentional evolution of policies to advance community resilience through a living lab approach.
We adopt a design thinking approach to support individuals and organizations design solutions that are at the intersection of desirability, feasibility and viability.
We design innovative programs that are meant to address relevant social challenges and help our partners localize their programs to maximize their intended socio-economic impact.
We support our partners assess the outcomes of their programs. We capture and present these findings in a manner that supports continuous learning and evolution of their approach in the design and delivery of developmental programs.
We have had an amazing run full of impact-oriented activities, program innovations, partnership engagements, forums and mentorship sessions plus much more.
Events facilitated
Social innovators and entrepreneurs supported
Innovative in-house programs designed
Organizations worked with across Africa
Countries where our solutions are implemented
Address: Pinetree Plaza, Kaburu Road, Nairobi, Kenya, P.O. Box 142 - 40592, Nairobi, Kenya
Phone: +254 (0)29 520 46 62
Email: info@tsavolabs.co.ke
We are building partnerships for systemic social change in the region. Over the next five years, we aim to continue refining our sector agnostic model and contribute to more opportunities in the region towards aspiration 1 and 6 of the African Union's Agenda 2063: A prosperous Africa based on inclusive growth and sustainable development and An Africa, whose development is people-driven, relying on the potential of African people, especially its women and youth, and caring for children.