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How can villageCAN Project effectively engage/empower village communities in Kenya to address climate-change?

  • a. For every county community of 2400 villages, generate 200 clusters of 12 villages per cluster, usually a sublocation
  • b. Under each cluster of 12 villages, recruit activators (1 apprentice-mentor+3student-apprentices+12 climate-promoters).
  • c. Build-market (12village-kiosk+75students+120climate-mentors+1200households+1200food-foresters) around activators.
  • d. Empower-market (12village-kiosk+75student+120climate-mentors+1200households+1200food-foresters) on own-loyalty.
  • e. Establish hospital, climate, social and business development investment structures to inform time/space/partner utilities.
  • f. Capacitate actors on activation processes: build-relationships, strategize-pathways, motivate-participation & take-action.

What strategy will VillageCAN employ to ensure long-term sustainability of student apprentice hubs?

Establish a Student Apprentice Hub (SAH) as a student-owned, student-led and student-managed self-help industry driven high quality career pathway that combines paid-on-the-job-skills-mentorship, e-learner skills classroom, data science bureau, own-source climate-finance (student meals 4 skills [sms] eatery, waste-to-energy, student mothers smart farms, fundraiser-events), and smart extension-services where each apprentice is deployed to service 4 village climate co operatives on hospital, climate, social, Loyalty-as-a-Service (LaaS) and Business Development Services (BDS) investments.

How can loyalty-app and loyalty program incentivize participation and increase climate-finance mobilization?

  1. a. Access Uhai-stock advances: Weekly centrally procured Uhai meal/kiosk-stock advances, offset by loyalties.
  2. b. Centrally procure Own Meal Needs: A-Z of consumables e.g. milk, oils, flours, sugar, rice, beans, etc.
  3. c. Profile collective loyalty-savings history: Secures bank overdraft and trade-credit facilities.
  4. d. Afford LaaS: 20%loyalties is loyalty-as-a-service (LaaS) app.
  5. e. Afford BDS: 20%loyalties is teller, rent, curricula, data-science, website, licenses, withholding-tax.
  6. f. Climate-Investments: 60% loyalties is hospital-insurance, climate-action, and social-action.
  7. g. Gain Bargaining Power: High scores on 4Is: Investment-Infrastructure-Involvement-Influence.

How can loyalty-app be designed to make it user friendly and accessible to off-grid village communities?

  1. a. Inbuilt secure teller assisted options: Uhai meals or Kiosks subscribers assisted by dedicated tellers.
  2. b. Embedded on sim tool-kit of popular Telcos: explore partnerships with Telcos and embed app solution.
  3. c. Availability on multiple platforms: avail on BOTH app stores as well as USSD version.

What strategies can ensure apprenticeship offer meaningful learning and mentorship opportunities for participants?

  1. a. Effectively equipped classroom-instruction labs and accelerator hubs with skilled personnel/equipment.
  2. b. Attaining a lean mentor to mentees ratio being 1:3 respectively for effective mentorship and coaching.
  3. c. Paid-on-the-job-skills training opportunities under close guidance and supervision of a skilled employee.
  4. d. Networking with blue-chip consultancies and premier learning institutions for classroom-instructions.
  5. e. Feasible, viable and scalable do-it-yourself-smart entrepreneurship.