Social innovation in Africa addresses numerous unmet social needs through new approaches. Some of the social needs highlighted in the document include providing affordable and clean electricity to low-income families, sharing information during crises, ensuring access to genuine drugs, building decent toilets in urban areas, offering basic financial services in rural regions, and developing affordable housing for low-income groups in urban and rural areas. Meeting these social needs will require collaboration between African social innovators, governments, universities, private foundations, impact investors, and international organizations to develop solutions and provide funding.

1. Social Innovation in Africa

2. Social Innovation = New approach + Unmet social need Africa = Numerous unmet social needs

6. THE NEED: Cheap, affordable and clean electricity to meet household needs of low income families

7. “She comes to understand that economic development and social change cannot be imposed from without. They must be sought and grasped by the individual pursuing opportunities for self-realization.” Pamela Hartigan Director, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship In a review of the book for the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2009

9. THE NEED: How to share information on hot spots and safe zones during a crisis

10. THE NEED: How to differentiating between genuine and fake drugs

11. The Need: Decent toilets in low-income urban centres

12. THE NEED: How to get basic financial services to people in the rural areas

13. THE NEED: Decent but affordable housing for low-income urban and rural dwellers

14. Hippo Water Roller Project THE NEED: Improving access to clean water for rural and impoverished households

15. Measuring social impact

16. Our governments?

17. Our Universities?

18. Corporate Social Investment Private Foundations Social Venture Capitalists African Social Innovation Fund African Governments Government donor agencies Regional & Global Organisations African Social Innovators Finance?

19. Tech Innovation Hubs?