Hacking The Hyphen – DD’s Innovation Challenge
Youth in Africa between the ages of 18-29 years face critical issues that stand in the way of developing innovative solutions to urgent and complex challenges at the nexus of Climate Justice, Sexual Reproductive Health & Rights (SRHR), and Gender . At the crux of these issues, is lack of technical capacity and underrepresentation in innovation spheres. There is a growing need to capacitate these youth to support the creation of solutions that will adequately tackle the issues at the intersection of the aforementioned societal themes. Hacking The Hyphen is DD’s annual innovation challenge, aimed at solving challenges at the nexus of Gender, Climate and Sexual Reproductive Health & Rights.
We envision a collective of empowered and connected African youth creating impactful and sustainable innovations that address urgent and complex issues at the intersection of Climate justice, SRHR and Gender. In addition, we aim to ensure these innovators are continuously supported by their peers and pioneers in the social impact sector with resources and networks that enable catalytic societal transformation.