I POUR LIFE ETHIOPIA
MAKING COMMUNITIES STRONGER
I Pour Life Ethiopia is strengthening socially-isolated communities through development and training.
Since 2014, I Pour Life Ethiopia has been providing a way out of poverty through integrated development programs including Women’s Empowerment, Orphan Prevention, Early Childhood Education, and Youth Empowerment. The next step in sustainably transforming isolated communities in Ethiopia is by bringing all key stakeholders together with the same goal and understanding towards sustainability. This process is called Social Innovation.


Women’s Empowerment

Orphan Prevention

Youth Development

Social Innovation Ecosystem
A HAND UP, NOT A HAND OUT TO SELF-RELIANCE
DEFINING A SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM
SOCIAL INNOVATION
New services, models, and processes that meet a social need more effectively than the existing solution
ECOSYSTEM
A network of people who develop patterns of behavior to streamline the flow of ideas, talent, and capital throughout a system
SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM
A dynamic new model between people that improves relationships, capabilities, and use of resources through talk, trust, collaboration, experiment, and interconnected growth
SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM TRAINING
Most of the stakeholders in Ethiopia, from both public and private sectors, do not fully realize the transformational potential that will occur from forming a Social Innovation Ecosystem (SIE). The development strategy will allow nationals to solve the unmet social needs of the country from a systematic approach. Currently, IPL-Ethiopia has started the SIE training for the stakeholders in the sub-city of Kolfe Keranyo in Addis Ababa and it will be expanded to Debrezeit town. I Pour Life Ethiopia’s unique approach involves evidence-based curriculum and on-going training in four primary categories, ensuring a roadmap to self-sufficiency for all individuals:
Women
Empowerment
Youth
Development
Community-based
ECD System
Education Innovation Ecosystem
I POUR LIFE ETHIOPIA
MAKING COMMUNITIES STRONGER
I Pour Life Ethiopia is strengthening socially-isolated communities through development and training.
Since 2014, I Pour Life Ethiopia has been providing a way out of poverty through integrated development programs including Women’s Empowerment, Orphan Prevention, Early Childhood Education, and Youth Empowerment. The next step in sustainably transforming isolated communities in Ethiopia is by bringing all key stakeholders together with the same goal and understanding towards sustainability. This process is called Social Innovation.

Women’s Empowerment

Orphan Prevention

Youth Empowerment

Social Innovation Ecosystem
A HAND UP, NOT A HAND OUT TO SELF-RELIANCE

DEFINING A SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM
SOCIAL INNOVATION
New services, models, and processes that meet a social need more effectively than the existing solution
ECOSYSTEM
A network of people who develop patterns of behavior to streamline the flow of ideas, talent, and capital throughout a system
SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM
A dynamic new model between people that improves relationships, capabilities, and use of resources through talk, trust, collaboration, experiment, and interconnected growth
SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM (SIE) TRAINING
Most of the stakeholders in Ethiopia, from both public and private sectors, do not fully realize the transformational potential that will occur from forming a Social Innovation Ecosystem. The development strategy will allow nationals to solve the unmet social needs of the country from a systematic approach. Currently, IPL-Ethiopia has started the SIE training for the stakeholders in the sub-city of Kolfe Keranyo in Addis Ababa and it will be expanded to Debre Zeit town.
I Pour Life Ethiopia’s unique approach involves evidence-based curriculum and on-going training in four primary categories, ensuring a roadmap to self-sufficiency for all individuals:
Women Empowerment
Youth Development
Community-based ECD System
Education Innovation Ecosystem
KORE, ETHIOPIA
I Pour Life Ethiopia’s primary objective is to equip individuals with the resources and mindset they need to lift themselves out of poverty. The social innovation ecosystem is a hand up, not a hand out approach.
I POUR LIFE ETHIOPIA STAFF

Jeya (Madurendrum) Jeyachandran
Ethiopia Country Director

Sara Zewdie
Program Coordinator
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