By Allen Anie, Head of Experimentation, UNDP Accelerator Lab, Ghana and Gaeten Agbaam, Young Reporters for Environment, Ghana UNDP Accelerator Lab, Ghana has been exploring, mapping solutions, and experimenting in the waste-management space, applying behavioural insights, collective intelligence, and ethnographic approaches. To generate primary data about the complex systems of…

By: Allen Anie (Ghana), María Gabriela Ayala (Ecuador), Bisam Gyawali (Nepal), Zainab Kakal (Fiji), Lorena Moscovich (Argentina), Berna Mugema (Uganda), Lillian Njoro (Kenya) with inputs from the entire Experimentation network at UNDP Accelerator Labs. The UNDP Accelerator Lab Network is growing. 31 new Labs are joining the family and expanding…

By Allen Anie, Head of Experimentation, UNDP Accelerator Lab Ghana — This blog discusses lessons from a 3-month project to clean up an inner-city community in Accra, which was grappling with problems of indiscriminate dumping of waste. It was led by local government (the Municipal Assembly), community representatives and the outsourced waste-services company for the area (Jekora Ventures Limited). The AccLab…

By Allen Anie — Head of Experimentation, UNDP Accelerator Lab Ghana Ghana, like many countries across the globe, is wrestling with COVID-19. Predictions are that in addition to the health crisis, social and economic implications for Africa will be severe without effective measures to stop the spread. The United Nations…