In November 2023, fourty colleagues from Boehringer Ingelheim worldwide have participated in the Making More Health Insights weeks in Kenya.

Here in Kenya, we run a lot of different activities in eight locations and have built exchange structures among the locations and local partner organizations so that the need of vulnerable communities can be covered in many ways.

Interconnected, complex needs are covered by many different solutions and solution makers in our Making More Health Hubs

That’s also what our colleagues experienced during the Making More Health Insights week: visiting our MMH hubs, understanding how they collaborate and how information is transferred among the different vulnerable communities, understanding the different basic needs and how they are interlinked, exploring how social entrepreneurs can contribute and how their solutions are part of the systemic solution…

Listen here to what our colleagues experienced and shared.

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What we mean by systemic solutions? Empowering those communities and establishing a self sustainable System Changer Network Kenya (SCN). The SCN consists of eight local core partner NGOs who work together and have dedicated exchange structures so that solutions integrated in one location are transferred easily from one location to another. The partners meet regularly and we have developed also a methodology to measure the density of collaboration. In this way, we build a „SCN pattern of change“ that aims to match the communities needs holistically. Sustainability means more than one successful project. The SCN approach makes vulnerable communities strong enough to change the life conditions visibly and long-term wise – so far we reach in Kenya ca 500 000 people living at the poverty line and measure how life changes for them sustainably in many ways: water, energy, health and animal health, farming, education, mental well-being…. All in all we measure the situation of 20 basic needs!