Urban Green Recovery
Urbanization and climate change are well-known challenges in terms of social and sustainability issues - even more so for developing countries facing massive urban growth. Help the state of Rwanda in building its capital Kigali as a blueprint for sustainable and green cities. Develop climate-friendly and revolutionary innovations for green urban development!
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✅ Completed 🏁 Winner Congrats to RefresherBoxx for winning the Challenge!
🏆 Prize EUR 3,000 per Challenge + funding programs with the state of Rwanda and BMZ digilab + joint publication | For more see Tab “Rewards”
🌎 Scope Open to participants from all over the world
Who can participate?
The Use Case is calling students, researchers, professionals involved in digital solutions for eco-agriculture and startups to innovate African agriculture.
Knowledge Base
More information about our smart cities’ strategy can be found within the “Smart City Rwanda Masterplan”.
Information about the future goals of Kigali can be found in the Kigali Masterplan 2020 and 2050.
Desired Output
The desired outcome of this use case is to develop:
- develop easy to implement and concrete solutions to create/improve urban green infrastructure and spaces in Kigali that are accessible to all.
Potential Impact
This project responds to SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities and SDG 13: Climate action. Both SDGs address creation of green urban spaces that are inclusive and improving urban planning and resource management in a sustainable and resilient manner and integrating disaster risk measures.
Evaluation Criteria
1. political relevance (strategic relevance)
- Does digital innovation contribute to solving a developmentally important core problem for target groups, differentiated by vulnerable groups or disadvantaged groups (gender, minorities), or to a development bottleneck of a partner country?
- Does innovation make a clearly defined contribution to the SDGs (which ones?)
2. scalability (probability of success)
Impact
- Are the impact goals defined and is it explained how they will be achieved (e.g., Theory of Change)?
- Has digital innovation already been successfully piloted and implemented? Is there evidence that the intended impact was achieved?
- How high is the degree of goal achievement (effectiveness, quality of goal achievement) compared to other options? (Ratio result/target)
- What are the economic, social, and environmental risks associated with innovation (especially with regard to the Safeguards+Gender areas of the environment, climate, human rights, conflict, and gender)?
Scaling intention
- Are initial scaling objectives and further scaling options coherently presented?
- Is digital innovation sufficiently independent of context-specific determinants and local system requirements?
Team
- Is digital innovation backed by a diverse team with a clear vision characterized by leadership and entrepreneurial thinking?
- Does the team have clear ambitions to scale their digital innovation?
- Target group centricity
- Is there broad knowledge of the target audience and stakeholder needs?
- Have elements of digital innovation been tested and developed together with the target group?
- Are vulnerable target groups (esp. women) or is the partner country able and willing to use the innovation in the long term (long-term demand)?
Sustainability
- What is the benefit or added value of digital innovation for target groups or the partner country?
- Is there a comprehensible business model that ensures sustainable financing of the digital solution?