Africa Humanities Program (AHP) Phase II
Carnegie Corporation of New York Africa (CCYN)
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
The Opportunity
Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCYN) is America’s oldest grantmaking foundation. Established in 1911 by Andrew Carnegie to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding. In keeping with this mandate, the Corporation's work focuses on the issues that Andrew Carnegie considered of paramount importance: international peace, the advancement of education and knowledge, and the strength of our democracy. The African Humanities Program is one of the corporation’s flagship programs seeking to support the revitalization of higher education and research in Africa through two fellowship competitions. One program promotes the completion of Ph.D. dissertations in the humanities by providing a stipend to support the final year of writing. The second fellowship competition supports ongoing research and publication by early-career scholars in the humanities by providing one-year leaves from teaching in the form of a postdoctoral fellowship. The postdoctoral fellowship competition is open to humanities scholars in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. We were consulted to assess the work of the Corporation’s Africa Humanities Program through attending AHP summit in Tanzania to provide project strategic insights from AHP regional leaders and stakeholders.
Our Solution
Working with the corporation, we conducted interviews, strategic insights and recommendations on profiling the impact from the program, support vetting of AHP fellows during the event for potential storytelling opportunities. The overall objective was to support the communication and marketing of the programs impact in the selected African Countries positioning the study of humanities is a critical component of regional and national development in Africa.
The Opportunity
With more than 45 years of research for development work in potato and sweet potato, the International Potato Center (CIP) has contributed to greater food and nutrition security, economic growth and prosperity. CIP breeders and plant scientists work with local partners and famers to develop and manage potato and sweet potato varieties that are more resilient to the extremes of climate, pests and diseases, produce higher yields and better nutritional and culinary qualities. CIP’s social, nutrition and food scientists bring the same dedication to helping rural farmers and communities understand, adopt, and profit from agricultural and postharvest technologies and best practices tailored for different agro-ecologies, production systems and valve chains. In partnership with governments, businesses and international organization, CIP is scaling these science innovations and approaches, putting the tools for better harvests, incomes and health into the hands of millions of farmers, processors, traders and their communities. RTBfoods project, under Work Package (WP) One has a main objective to deploy RTB varieties that meet user-preferred quality traits to increase the adoption and impact of improved RTB varieties in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Our Solution
Working with the organisation, we edited and formatted the RTBfoods project report ensuring that the most important elements of the report are highlighted. This includes a professional look and layout that resonate with the project branding.
RTBfoods Project (Gendered Food Mapping for Boiled Sweet Potato)
International Potato Center (CIP)
Kampala, Uganda
RED SOFA Sessions
RED CODE
Kampala, Uganda
The Opportunity
The RED SOFA is a Multi-Dimensional Platform for people to interact with Christian achievers, with the purpose of inspiring people to live life to the fullest. Red Sofa creatively stirs up people to aspire for something greater than they have settled for by profiling inspiration trail blazers who have walked or are walking a desirable path. RED SOFA Sessions focus on three activities namely; Networking, Conversation and Performance. We were consulted to support the development, editing and formatting of their company profile, creating of social media promotional materials that would be used to increase visibility of the sessions and content creation for the social media campaigns. Part of this task was to cover the event through offering our professional photography services that captured moments during the sessions.
Our Solution
We designed the RED SOFA company profile giving it a simply yet compiling storyline as well as designing social media promotional materials. Though our engagement, we offered professional advice for event marketing and supported their social media campaign for the RED SOFA Sessions. As part of increasing partnership and funding, we produced a documentary on the need to partner and increase the reach of the RED SOFA influence.
Their Reaction
During the time we worked with KAVIBE, we found their service to be very professional timely and very much to our satisfaction. I would recommend any brand that seeks to grow its online presence to associate with KAVIBE. – Mr. Ronnie Habasa.
