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Despite progress in recent decades, many crucial challenges to the eradication of extreme poverty remain intractable.
Development interventions often fail to deliver sustained, transformational outcomes to households and communities. The field of design has demonstrated its capacity to deliver designed artifacts that enhance the livelihoods and well-being of people living in resource poor communities, but it remains unclear how its tools can contribute to interventions seeking multidimensional and transformational development outcomes.
The authors present insights from two case studies, conducted in Kenya and Uganda, where a service design approach was applied to the design of two development interventions: a clean cookstove and fuel system, and an innovative insurance product to help farmers cope with climate variability.
In both cases, experience mapping, archetype construction, and prototyping served to reveal individual needs, capacities, and values, and enabled the translation of this information into design features for the interventions. Using Amartya Sen’s capabilities approach as an ex post analytical frame, the authors show how these devices could guide designers seeking to deliver transformational development outcomes when co-designing services that aim for environmental sustainability and social well-being among low-income communities.
SEI report / This report uses a case study from Kenya's Kakuma Refugee Camp to examine the need for renewable energy projects to address the issue of conflict sensitivity.
Project / The Ugandan government hopes to scale up cleaner cooking options to curb the health and climate damage caused by burning wood and charcoal.
Past event / This workshop is organised to get stakeholders’ feedback on the functionality of the web-based forestry and climate change decision-support tool.
Design and development by Soapbox.
