The Social Impact the Social Innovation Academy (SINA) has been able to achieve since 2015:
Latest Impact Reports: 2023 (PDF, Interactive), 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018
Awards:
- ZeroDX Award (2024)
- Ockenden International Prize (2023)
- Engagement Preis (2023)
- Tony Hsieh Award (2022)
- Modern Work Award (2022)
- Pan-African Award for Entrepreneurship in Education (2019)
- UNHCR NGO Innovation Award (2018)
Case Studies and Research on SINA:
- Future earnings per dollar spent – SINA scholars achieve a 10x return on investment, 2024
- Independent Case Study: SINA’s Decolonial Approach to Sustainable Development and Social Entrepreneurship, 2024
- Case Study: Breaking The Silence: The Impact of the Totya Platform, 2024
- Case Study on the SINA Framework by Anzisha, 2024
- Awarded Ecosystem success Story with SINA by LAP Alliance, 2024
- Independent Master Thesis confirming the Impact of SINA on participant’s “agency”, 2023
- SINA Case Study, 2022
- Learning by Founding – Social Entrepreneurship Education for Refugees, FII Institute, 2022
- From Marginalized Youth to Social Entrepreneurs in “Adventures in Reinventing Work 2021”
- Roskilde University, “SINA’s approach has been successful in scaling their model.”, 2019
What funders say about SINA:
- Famtastisch Foundation: “We would like to recommend SINA to other funders”
- A spotlight of SINA’s impact, assessed and written by porticus and argidius foundation
- Deichmann Foundation: “SINA, a partner to work with”
- Corporate Rebels: Empowering Marginalized Youth Through Innovation: The SINA Approach
- Issroff Family Foundation: “impactful community development work in action”
A selection of achievements by SINA members and SINA enterprises:
Awards
- Ashden Award
- Women Empowerment Award
- Young Global Changers Recoupling Award
- Commonwealth Secretary-General’s Innovation for Sustainable Development Award
- Bayer Social Innovation
- COVID-19 Innovation Prize
- UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour Award
- AACSB Influential Leader
- Builders of Africa’s Future Award
- Uganda Young Employer of the Year
- Greenpreneurs Achievement Award
- Savvy Prize
- Westerwelle Founder of the Year
- African Innovation Challenge
- SEED Low Carbon Award
- Total Startupper of the Year
- IET Innovation Award
- Women4Women Award
- 2019 Women Stop Hunger Awards
- YE! Young Entrepreneur Award
- Global Bridging Fund
- Queen’s Young Leader’s Award
- Adamstart Covid-19 Challenge
- Meaningful Business 100
- appsafrica Award
Some of the International Participations
- COP29 in Azerbaijan
- Obama Foundation Leaders: Africa
- Entrepreneurship Education in Africa Summit
- Accelerator for Ventures Serving Forcibly Displaced People
- Halcyon Fellowship
- Amahoro Fellowship
- Africa Climate Summit
- COP28, Dubai
- Paris Peace Forum, France
- Energy Globe National
- One Young World Summit
- Africa Youth Connekt, Rwanda
- IdeaLab, Nigeria
- DRC Social Innovation Summit
- IKEA Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator
- F-LANE, Germany
- World Bank Annual Meetings, USA
- Africa Talks Jobs Conference, Ethiopia
- G-STIC, Belgium
- GoodFestival, Switzerland
- African Innovation Summit, Rwanda
- Future Jamboree, Poland
- WISE, Qatar
- Responsible Innovation Summit, Ireland
- YALI Mandela Washington Fellowship, Kenya
- MitSprache Conference, Germany
- Social Innovation Summit, Stuttgart, Germany
- Global Art Festival, India
- Pursuit Incubator, East Africa
- Growth Africa, East Africa
Recognitions
- UNHCR Innovation Fellowship
- Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Award
- Echoing Green Fellowship
- Acumen Fellow
- Lioness of Africa
- COP28 Youth Climate Delegate
- Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders
- Anzisha Fellow
- UNHCR Global Youth Advisory Council
- Ashoka Changemaker
- Westerwelle Foundation Young Founders
- Brave Movement
- Vital Voices Fellow
Selected Media mentions
- CNN
- rfi
- ZDF Auslandsjournal
- Al Jazeera
- Leadermorphosis Podcast
- Forbes
- BBC
- reuters
- Business Punk
- PBS News Hour
- Pioneer Post
- Global Press Journal
- AJ+
- Bukedde TV, Uganda
- Berliner Morgenpost
- New Vision, Uganda
- EDUSHIFTS –The Future of Education is Now
- Stanford Innovation Review
- kurier, Austria
- Spark TV (Uganda), 3 episodes
- Thueringer Allgemeine, Germany
- CGTN Africa
- zbc, Zimbabwe
- Euronews
- radioeins, Germany
- ECOZONE, Uganda
- iCON Magazine, East Africa
- RTL II News, Germany
- Domradio, Germany
- Daily Monitor, Uganda
- News 18
- Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany
- Modern Ghana
- Many Peaces Magazine
- VICE
- TBT World
- attn
- NTV, Uganda
- AFP News Agency, France
- UBC, Uganda
- CNN Inside Africa
Stories of Impact:
- Makers of Social Change (Documentary, 2020)
- Moses Taban Mathew – Eco/Shoes Africa
- Nelson Kasaranga Fidel – Human Rights for People living with Albinism
- Sylivia Kyomuhendo – Infants Health Foundation
- Miriam Feza – Clay Cosmo
- Justine Owere – Justev Building Systems – Eco-friendly Construction in Uganda
- Albert Rwakimari – NUNU Fund
- Juliet Namujju – Kimuli Collections
- Fadhil Othman – SINA Replication in Zanzibar, Tanzania
- Lucky Bahati Buhendwa – Refugees Global Talent
- Janet Aguti – Totya Platform
- Joan Nalubega and Etienne Salborn: Impact for Breakfast
- Henry Othieno – Tusafishe
- Mackline Kobusingye – Vital Care Connect
- Gejja Foundation: Empowering Women in Uganda
"I'm living my dreams and not dreaming my life!"
Joseph Bwinika
Founder of Tucheke Movies Production, Nakivale Refugee Sttlement
"Before I joined SINA I didn’t know what to do with my life, I was scared that I was going to be a failure because I had no hopes of continuing with studies but after joining SINA and through a lot of empowerment and coaching, I realized my passions and regained hope for success and created a change in my life."
Joan Nalubega
Founder of Uganics
"I am now strong emotionally and no longer put blame on anyone for the challenges that I met in life and I uphold challenges to give me solutions. I was able to find my passion and create a social benefit to the society out of it."
Angella Marjorie
Founder of the Gejja Women Foundation
"Before SINA, I was not able to express myself and give my view about challenges that affect me and my community, after SINA am able to pursue my passion and dreams of fashion and supporting persons with disabilities with the help of life coaches and mentors. SINA has changed my life through discovering myself, identifying and developing my passions and it has kept me thinking and creative all the time. I am an empowered leader now and have been able to create an enterprise. "
Juliet Namujju
Founder of Kimuli Collections
"SINA has impacted me in many ways. It is the place and environment where I discovered myself deeply. I learned how to find solutions towards problems and pains I had."
Turatsinze Victor
Co-Founder of Unleashed in the Nakivale Refugee Settlement
"SINA is a life transforming environment which is giving hope and meaning to life of youth. I was hopeless and I didn’t know what I was going to do but since I joined SINA I am now developing my professional skills and my personal growth. It is helping me to become an entrepreneur."
Sylvain Himbana
Co-Founder of SINA Loketa in Bidibidi Refugee Camp
