Human-Centered Design for Refugee Leadership Development

We’re back from the IDEO.org human-centered design bootcamp in Kampala, Uganda and my notebook is full of notes, drawings, and sticky notes. It’s bursting with ideas, questions, prototypes, and plans for expanding our Little Ripples (LR) program to better support the leadership development of the refugee female teachers hired and trained to implement the LR program and make it their own.

Months and months ago, iACT responded to startup accelerator Amplify’s global challenge: how might we improve the education and learning opportunities for refugees around the world?

We put forth our