GIZ and its implementing partner Ministry of ICT and Innovation (MINICT), are jointly implementing the Project Digital Solutions for Sustainable Development (DSSD) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). This project was commissioned in 2017 for a timeframe of three years (January 2017 – December 2020), and was subsequently extended for another period of three years (January 2021 – December 2023). During this period the Digital Transformation Center Kigali was established as an innovation hub, event and coworking space for partners and the local IT ecosystem.
With the extension of the project, the need arose to reflect on the past years and to clarify which activities went well and which did not go well. Therefore, the DSSD team organized several lessons learned sessions on various key topics in order to shed more light on them. In total, five sessions were held on general topics such as HR or gender as well as specific topics such as events, strategies, capacity-building and solution development. Subsequently, various actions were taken from the discussions and strategies were developed to prevent errors in the future and to have a better planning foundation for the second project phase.
The key results are presented and explained on the attached document. The aim of this lessons learned report is to inform partners about various activities and strategies. At the same time, DSSD would like to provide recommendations for other Digital Transformation Centers that will be established on the African continent in the near future.
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