Incubator for integration and development in east africa (iidea) project

There several results that this project has delivered not only in the field of arts, culture and development but also on health, agribusiness, trade, ict and women and youth empowerment. however, the results attained in arts and culture as follows:- cdea: creative economy incubator for fashion design, film and music has enhanced skill development and established a functional online market for music, film and fashion accessories currently supporting huge number of musicians, artists and fashion designers dododa: east african performing arts market: has established a regular performance markets and skills development for artists in east africa that has benefited more than 200 artists in east africa dance team africa: performance arts for youth in tanzania & kenya established artist for youth in east africa (ayea) platform currently nurturing and training young orphans who are now earning income through music and dance performances. eastafab: moving arts across east africa: has soldvisual arts and paintings worth usd 15,000 and marketed the visual artists in east africa to east africans. media for development initiative (mfdi): through the swahiliwood edutainment solutions for regional integration, increased artistic educational information on the benefit to eac citizens on the integration. hakuna kulala incubator project: has marketed many young artists across the region through the online platform for music sales and performance booking and many east african youth artists are currently performing in europe for money

1,778, 612 united state dollars

Engage wider stakeholders including bigger companies and governments to enable them support iidea projects and make the projects eac integration success stories secure more funding for the iidea project to reach out to many other interest groups such as the youth, women, professional associations iidea needs to take on a medium to long-term vision, e.g. 2 years project cycle and 5 years evaluation time frame; stronger emphasis on branding (after the scope is clarified) to increase number of applications during the call for application review the financial contribution to iidea partners (which again depends on the stage of the product), for early stage rather pay an incubator (20,000 usd) and fund a prototype ( 5,000 - 10,000 usd) and for later stage ensure solid scaling ( 25,000 - 100,000 usd) extend the time span to 1-2 years, because 6 months is very short for an early-stage start-up and also difficult for cross border activities in general work with less projects and allocate more resources to them. iidea to perform two key functions: platform and driver of the regional ecosystem (regional community management) & strong and holistic regional incubation program (regional program management); the community management ensures connections to all relevant actors and understands their functions and the program manager is very close to the start-ups and provides all services and support needed. provide more coaching and mentoring (1on1) as possible to the projects, e.g. technical industry-specific knowledge, personal development, business knowledge. design the program holistically and make sure that it is sustainable, e.g. develop a financial plan that operations continue and provide after-incubation services to bridge the time until financial self-sustainment. collaborate with the entrepreneurship ecosystem in the eac and provide services through experienced actors, e.g. coaching and mentoring via technical experts.