Adaptation Innovation Cluster for Rural Communities
Enhancing Tanzania’s climate resilience through innovation
Tanzania is experiencing significant changes in climate, including rising temperatures, shifting rainfall patterns, prolonged drought and increased frequency of extreme weather events.
At the same time, there is a vibrant local ecosystem where innovative solutions are being developed to address these challenges.
There is an immense potential for improving the environment for these solutions to emerge, grow and thrive solving these challenges through enhanced collaboration and synergies between various stakeholders.
If you’re an innovator, entrepreneurship support organisation, NGO, policy maker, organisation or individual working on climate solutions in Tanzania, please register your interest to join the Cluster here:
What is the Adaptation Innovation Cluster about?
An innovation cluster is a collaborative ecosystem where a diverse range of participants work together on a common purpose to drive innovation and create lasting, impactful solutions. These clusters unite people from different backgrounds, sectors, and locations, promoting knowledge sharing, learning, networking, and connection. By forming a collaborative network that includes businesses, universities, entrepreneurs, investors, government agencies, and NGOs, innovation clusters can generate more ideas and solutions than any one entity could alone.
Our common purpose is to enhance the climate resilience of rural communities through collaboration and innovation. This includes creating an enabling environment that promote climate solutions throughout the country, stimulating the growth of new green start-ups, employment and investment.
Our approach to the Adaptation Innovation Cluster
- Building the Adaptation Innovation Cluster Ecosystem: Our approach to innovation clusters involves organising workshops and events that provide opportunities for people to gather and learn from each other. These sessions are designed to facilitate networking and collaboration, creating an environment where new ideas can flourish.
- Empowering Locally-Led Climate Innovations: We also focus on building locally embedded ecosystems that promote entrepreneurial activities and offer capacity-building support. This collaborative framework fosters the development of innovative solutions and serves as a hub for collaboration, ideation, and incubation of adaptation business models.
- Investing in the next generation: We aim to empower and amplify the voices of young leaders who are uniquely positioned to drive impactful and innovative initiatives addressing the pressing climate challenges facing the nation.
