RISE Collaboratives take a multi-stakeholder approach to supporting the evidence-based scale-up of social innovations across sectors, particularly those addressing the sustainable development goals (SDGs).

The focus of the 1st Annual RISE Solutions Summit, held on November 29-30, 2017 at the Townhouse Gallery in downtown Cairo, was Evidence-Based Innovation & Investment in Education. The objective was to inspire collaboration towards evidence-based innovation and investment for education through sharing knowledge, creating dialogue, and growing tangible opportunities for impact. 

Over 100 individuals representing a select group of education entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, experts and capacity-building organizations convened in a one-of- a-kind, hands on experience to collaborate on an agenda to push evidence-based education innovation and investment forward in Egypt.

1st RISE Solutions Summit 2017

Learn more from the detailed program, post-Summit report, video, and event pictures below.

Interested in learning more about collaboration for impact?

Check out these great resources on the power and role of collaboratives in social change:

Collaboration for Impact website
Societal Platforms' white paper on 'A Systemic Method to Resolve Complex Societal Challenges'

Launching LEEP for Collaborative Impact

Spinning out of our 1st RISE Solutions Summit was a collaborative idea to digitize a map of the social innovation ecosystem, link this map to a digital library of knowledge resources, and enable support of the entire social innovation community in Egypt through this online/offline engagement platform.

RISE Egypt spent 2018 validating this idea, engaging in consultations with local and global learning partners, and finally secured funding from the Drosos Foundation to pilot what we are calling the LEEP (Library and Ecosystem Engagement Platform) for Collaborative Impact Initiative. You can learn more about LEEP and it’s goals in the video below.