From March 21-25, IDEO held a bootcamp for all grant winners in Nairobi, Kenya. Melat and Julia attended the event on behalf of the team and spent the week sharing our project and learning new skills in human centre design.
It was an intense week where each project representative spent day and night working exploring new ways to improve as well as define their implementation strategies.
Here are some of the question we asked ourselves to help push the Gulit Project.
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Problem statement.
- vendors receive low quality fridges
- vendors don’t cooperate for transport, delivery etc.
- vendors throw away large amount of fruits
- vendors can not afford market price
- vendors are dependent on seasonal
- vendors are directly affected by climate change related harvest losses
Due to the lack of appropriate food preservation and recycling methods, local fruit and vegetable market vendors are directly affected by climate change and price fluctuation.
Idea
- preserve food to increase variety
- preserve food to elongate shelf life
- preserve food to increase market value
- preserve food to
- lower individual costs for transportation
- lower individual costs through sharing preservation tools
- lower individual costs
Improving food security in Addis Ababa through empowering small scale market vendors to preserve and reduce food waste.
Key users
- vendors , mobile vendors
- buyers
- transporters
- Kebele (governmental representatives , e.g. department of hygene)
- Farmers
What are the most important questions to answer in order to take the next steps with your idea.
How much profit do vendors currently make and from what products (and projection)
Market and mobile vendors:
- Who are you buying from
- Are you buying daily , weekly, twice a day?
- How much are you buying from them
- How much are you selling it for?
- How is your profit season related
- Which product gives you the highest profit?
- Which product can last longest in your store ?
- Which product is the most delicate / fastest decaying
Farmers:
- How much do you sell your products?
- Which product is most profitable
- Which product decays fastest?
- Which product needs most care in transport?
Buyers :
- How much do you buy
- What are you interested in buying (cheap, quality..?)
- Are you a regular customer ?
- Do you change shops?
- Do you buy from first row shops ?
- Who do you buy for?
- Who do you buy from?
- Who do you buy for?
- How often do you buy?
- What does your choice of vendor depend on
- What does your choice of fruit depend
- What visually stimulates you ?
- Would you buy dried fruit
- Would you buy picked fruit
- Would you be interest in buying experimental
Whole sellers:
- Do you pay the transportation, if not, who?
- Has sth changed in the last decade?
- Where is your highest profit?
- Which product is easiest for you to handle?
How do other vendor cooperatives share infrastructure?
(Coffee) farmer Cooperative:
- How do you preserve quality?
- How do you track common payment?
- How do you share profit?
- What are your biggest risks in sharing infrastructure and products?
- What is the organizational structure of your cooperative?
- What is the decision process?
- Are there any (minimum) requirements to be members of the cooperative?
Local government administration:
- Is there any cooperative in your district?
- If yes, how do they communicate with you?
- Which infrastructure can they share?
- How do you think about food security in the market?
- What is your vision of local markets in 2050?
- Is there any waste strategy within the community?
- What is the current master plan for the local master plan for local markets?
Non-Governmental organizations focusing on women empowerment:
- What are successful cooperative models?
- Can we learn from other countries
- What are the unsuccessful cooperative examples?
