HiiL Innovation Hub – East  Africa 2023 Jenga Haki Lab for Ugandan Entrepreneurs

Jenga Haki Lab is a programme that aims to challenge individuals to come up with innovative solutions around preventing or resolving certain justice issues using technology. The solutions are based on a theme that changes every year. We will be running 3 of these programmes in Uganda and Kenya this year focused on crime and land related problems.

The Theme for this round of applications is:

How do you use technology to prevent or resolve land problems such as fraud and disputes in Uganda.

• Table of Content
• About HiiL Innovation Hub East  Africa
• Jenga Haki Lab
• Aim and Benefits of Jenga Haki Lab
• Requirements for Jenga Haki Lab Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

Jenga Haki Lab

Application Deadline	30 Apr 2023
Type	Entrepreneurs
Sponsor	HiiL Innovation Hub East  Africa
Gender	Men and Women

Aim and Benefits of Jenga Haki Lab

The Jenga Haki Lab programme offers a 5 week long programme that provides the selected teams with:

• Match with like minded and talented entrepreneurs to build a solution
• Training during the residential 2 day Jenga Haki Weekend. The training will be on;
  • Prototyping
  • Human-centered design or Designing for your User testing   
  • Leadership and Project Management
  • Pitching and Presentation
• Two weeks of product development sprints for the teams to design, develop and test their prototype.
• Pitch at the Jenga Haki Festival in front of a 3 member Jury and stand a chance to win grant funding of
  • 1000 Euros to the Winner, 
  • 750 euros to the 1st runners up
  • 500 euros to the 2nd runners

Requirements for Jenga Haki Lab Qualification

The programme is suitable for individuals with Innovative solutions/ideas that can address land justice problems in Uganda including:

• Land boundary disputes
• Land fraud
• Disputes over land ownership, transfer and land titles
• Land evictions
• Land succession disputes

Jenga Haki has also been designed to support teams hence all applicants must be willing to be in/form teams of 3-5 members. Members of the team must be above 18 years of age and residents or citizens of Uganda at the time of application.

Jenga Haki looks for teams that have:

• 3 – 5 Individuals with a passion for justice and entrepreneurship
• Multidisciplinary teams based on the following background/expertise:

• Law/Legal
• Business knowledge
• Have a social science background such as sociology, psychology 
• Have IT or Software development experience

Application Deadline

April 30, 2023

How to Apply

Interested and qualified? Go to HiiL Innovation Hub East  Africa on docs.google.com to apply

For more details, visit the website.