VillageCAN operates under market-partnerships of duly established county community-foundations, university student apprentice-hubs, and village climate co-operatives; ownership of duly recruited village climate actors network composed of apprentice-mentors, student-apprentices, climate-promoters, climate-producers, climate-mentors, village-kiosks, sms eateries, smart-students, smart-households, pupil-foodforesters, climate-investors, and climate-industries; public-private partnerships of governments and development agencies; joint-ventures of investors, venture-capital, and businesses; activation & entrepreneurship of student-apprentices and climate-promoters; mentorship of apprentice mentor volunteers by professionals in gainful employment, self-employment, business, and consultancy; leadership of founder social enterprise executive developer (seed); oversight of villageCAN Technical Working Group (TWG) composed of Devolved Government, National Government, CSOs, Knowledge-Partner (public-universities), community climate actors network, Chamber of Commerce, Professional Associations (Manufacturers, Teachers, Health, Media, Accountancy, Law, Hospitality, etc.), Religious Affiliations, PWDs, Diaspora; Management of professional-managers; coordination of young climate mentors; advisory of villageCAN Consortia. All partners have a high level of organizational autonomy as major decisions are taken during duly convened climate-convention. The oversight VillageCAN Technical Working Group shall set policies related to programming areas, geographic & partnership focus, revenue, spending, investment, grant-making, management, operational, governance & professional standards, internal & independent audits, compensation and performance reviews.
Tembea Futures Institute (TeFI) is a spinoff of Tembea Youth Centre for Sustainable Development founded in 2003 and registered in 2006. TeFI is a social-enterprise duly registered as limited by Guarantee Company under Kenya laws, fostering climate-smart interventions and sustainable land-use practices through technological-innovations, data-driven insights, workforce skills-transfers, and strategic-partnerships. TeFI milestones includes: (a) Reduces 226,277tCO2e annually through 120,000 household beneficiaries of energy efficient cook-stoves, a carbon asset duly developed, verified and certified by Gold Standard. (b) communication 4 climate-action via community radio (c) banking climate via community climate Sacco (d) hasten climate start-up growth, network, secure-funding, workforce, potential-customers via innovation accelerator hub
Uhai Innovations- a Loyalty-as-a-Service (LaaS) provider, pioneering universal health automated insurance (Uhai) finance. It deploys a fintech enabled mobile-wallet for own-source health and climate-finance using self-retail loyalties by students @university-eateries and households@village-kiosks off centrally procured common-users stock complete with monthly loyalty slip (Uhai-slip). Resultant monthly user loyalties estimated@$5 is collectively invested in users own university or village as: hospital-insurance@16.6%, climate-action @35.4%, social-action@8%, loyalty-as-a-service@20%, BDS@20%. LaaS (1) register users/their self-retail stores (2) track user loyalties (3) reward and profile users (4) manage user reward investments (5) enable loyalty-slip based advance/transactional repayment (6) process payment (7) integrate wallet-as-a service (8) offer communication channels (9) generate customizable reports (10) deploy mobile-app as Android/iOS/ Windows, USSD, Sim-tool kit, Teller. Uhai Innovations manages Loyalty-as-a-Service (LaaS) and business-development services (BDS) investments, while partnering with (1) climate-action Sacco on climate-smart investments (2) Community Foundations on hospital-insurance (3) Socio-Investment Co-op on social-investments. For every defined market of 2400 villages usually a County Community, Uhai Innovations deploys a market-activation framework to activate Student Apprentice Hubs, Village Climate Co-ops, Community-Foundations, and Partner-Networks. The lead activators are university student-apprentices, village Uhai promoters, and county-community apprentice-mentors. The goal is to unlock own-source climate-finance worth $15.3 million annually for every defined County market of 2400 villages from 15,000 students and 240,000 households@$60 loyalties activated by 200 apprentice-mentors, 600 student-apprentices, 2400 Uhai-promoters.