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Building Resilience and Social Cohesion through Local Innovation Ecosystems in South Sudan

One group in Pibor came up with the idea for a wheel cart (prototype above) as a way of generating income.

Publication | Sep 30, 2022 | Linda Ahimbisibwe, Laura Baracaldo, Gemma Pearson and Lydia Tanner

Building Resilience and Social Cohesion through Local Innovation Ecosystems in South Sudan

Creative Capacity Building and social cohesion in the midst of South Sudan’s civil war

Participants in an MIT D-Lab Creative Capacity Building for Business training demonstrating the knife grinder they built in the innovation center in Duk, South Sudan. Photo: MIT D-Lab/Heewon Lee

Blog | Jul 15, 2022 | Martha Thompson

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Creative Capacity Building and social cohesion in the midst of South Sudan’s civil war

Creative Capacity Building with Youth Social Advocacy Team and Kulika Uganda at refugee settlement Rhino Camp in Uganda

Participants in the Creative Capacity Building workshop in Rhino Camp, Uganda.

Blog | Jun 03, 2019 | MIT D-Lab

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Creative Capacity Building with Youth Social Advocacy Team and Kulika Uganda at refugee settlement Rhino Camp in Uganda

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