HiiL Innovation Hub – East  Africa Jenga Haki Lab for Ugandan Entrepreneurs 2023

Jenga Haki Lab is a programme that aims to challenge individuals to come up with innovative solutions around preventing or resolving certain justice issues using technology. The solutions are based on a theme that changes every year. We will be running 3 of these programmes in Uganda and Kenya this year focused on crime and land related problems.

The Theme for this round of applications is:

How do you use technology to prevent or resolve land problems such as fraud and disputes in Uganda.

About HiiL Innovation Hub East  Africa

HiiL Innovation Hub – East  Africa is a non profit organization dedicated to finding and supporting the world’s best justice entrepreneurs in East Africa. In collaboration with the Hague Institute for Innovation (HiiL), we endeavor to bridge the justice gap and provide justice that is affordable, fast, accessible, easy to understand and one that delivers fair outcomes.  Our mission is by 2030, 50 million people are able to prevent and resolve their most pressing justice problems in East Africa. ... read more... read more

Jenga Haki Lab

Aim and Benefits of Jenga Haki Lab

The Jenga Haki Lab programme offers a 5 week long programme that provides the selected teams with:

• Match with like minded and talented entrepreneurs to build a solution
• Training during the residential 2 day Jenga Haki Weekend. The training will be on;
  • Prototyping
  • Human-centered design or Designing for your User testing   
  • Leadership and Project Management
  • Pitching and Presentation
• Two weeks of product development sprints for the teams to design, develop and test their prototype.
• Pitch at the Jenga Haki Festival in front of a 3 member Jury and stand a chance to win grant funding of
  • 1000 Euros to the Winner, 
  • 750 euros to the 1st runners up
  • 500 euros to the 2nd runners

Requirements for Jenga Haki Lab Qualification

The programme is suitable for individuals with Innovative solutions/ideas that can address land justice problems in Uganda including:

• Land boundary disputes
• Land fraud
• Disputes over land ownership, transfer and land titles
• Land evictions
• Land succession disputes

Jenga Haki has also been designed to support teams hence all applicants must be willing to be in/form teams of 3-5 members. Members of the team must be above 18 years of age and residents or citizens of Uganda at the time of application.

Jenga Haki looks for teams that have:

• 3 – 5 Individuals with a passion for justice and entrepreneurship
• Multidisciplinary teams based on the following background/expertise:

• Law/Legal
• Business knowledge
• Have a social science background such as sociology, psychology 
• Have IT or Software development experience

Application Deadline

How to Apply

For more details, visit the website.