ANDE Action Labs convene members to ideate and prototype solutions to systemic challenges in the SGB sector. The key stages involved in the action lab include learn, image & ideate, create and test.

The Kenya climate and environmental action lab will involve in-person engagements to convene practitioners and spark actionable collaborations at local and global levels of engagement. The goal of these convenings is to identify barriers to success, improve existing solutions, and ideate new solutions to promote experimentation around solutions to systems-level challenges obstructing progress for ANDE members in achieving SDG 6, 7 and 13 goals.

The initiative ensures Entrepreneur Support Organizations (ESOs) are equipped to contribute to SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation), 7 (affordable and clean energy), and 13 (climate action) by promoting investments and effective support services for environment & climate-related small and growing businesses (SGBs) that help mitigate climate change and environmental degradation.

Expected outcomes: “advocacy package(s)” for 1 or more vetted ready-to-fund initiatives, backed by early-stage evidence supporting this initiative’s ability to generate its intended impact, along with a short publication of additional learnings.

This Action Lab is part of the larger Kenya Green Entrepreneurial Ecosystem project supported by IKEA Foundation that aims to act as a platform for intermediaries who are working to support entrepreneurs and innovators looking to tackle environment-related issues and climate action with the overarching goal of increasing on-ground entrepreneur support towards a more sustainable tomorrow. It seeks to push sector participants from discussion to action by putting new or not-yet-implemented solutions into practice. The Action Lab can focus on a number of potential promising solutions that can be tested in the given time frame with the available resources and connections.

After the successful inception meeting, the first session of the action lab will start on 24^th August.

ANDE contact: Dennis Kyalo