Research, Innovation,
AND social enterprising TO
servE the under-served in
Sub-sahara African countries
We build equal partnerships through
trust and resilience and
address the challenges
that our partners experience
to help them reach their goals.
Vision & Mission
Our vision is a world without extreme poverty.
Our mission is to empower scientific research, innovation and enterprising in sub-Sahara African countries through equal partnership. Within our mission lies transparency, accountability, truth, trust, harmony, equity and resilience, as well as sustainable economies and institutional capacity.
We aim to create communities where scientific research, innovations and business is thriving so that it contributes to the development of the country and the region. Such communities can then be scaled and copied making our effort powerful and important.
We argue for the empowerment of the business sector, that scientific findings and innovations are implemented through a profitable business sector that can offer services and products requested for by the population, that can employ people and that contribute to the tax income of the government. We want to be part of empowering social contracts between a nation’s population and its government where tax income and institutional capacity is available so that the government can build powerful institutions addressing education, health, justice, rule-of-law, banks, a national bank and more.
Our Expertice & Services
Human Rights & Science (HR&S) and our Country Branches in sub-Sahara Africa countries target scientific institutions, advanced laboratories, innovators and entrepreneurs in Sub-sahara African countries, and build Partnerships for Development with evidence based sustainable impact.
We have been in operation since 2009, have genuine experience from close collaboration with African stakeholders and have developed unique management strategies that empowers equal, sustainable, win-win international collaboration for development. We manage local support centres where we offer business loans, training, coaching, expert advice, access to agreed suppliers and stakeholder networks.
We have a deep understanding of the context where we operate and of how to coach our partners to reach their goals. We develop individual road-maps for each partner using our unique management strategies, and coach on the implementations, and we use evidence based methods to track impact or no impact.
Serving the under-served & local enterprising. We reach under-served communities through the social entrepreneurs that we partner with. Together we offer paid-for products and services requested for by underserved communities. We offer business loans combined with business coaching, training in a skill that generates employment, small scale loan services services, solar-panels, mills, sanitary pads, clothes with local design, local handy-craft, hair salons, and more.
Scientific research & advanced laboratories. We have expert knowledge from scientific research and advanced laboratories and offer research management and laboratory management coaching to scientific institutions and laboratories.
Partnerships for development. We also offer opportunities to sustainable development stakeholders benefiting from our management strategies, our implemented programmes and our network of key stakeholders in sub-Sahara African countries (SSA). We offer, for example, new potential customers for companies operating in SSA, local customer management, CSR programmes, seminars, workshops.
Outcome
We are annually engaged in, in average, 20 programmes in eight countries and we have empowered the lives of more than 10,000 persons since the start in 2009.
Outcome challenges. We face many challenges, which we take serious note of, we learn lessons every day, take informed decisions not to repeat our mistakes and adjust our strategies and tools accordingly. We are successful and we are scaling. Challenges are often related to an aid-mindset, efficiency, transparency, financial accounting and financial auditing.
Structure
Human Rights & Science (HR&S) is a for profit social enterprise registered in Sweden, with for profit social Country Branches in sub-Saharan African countries, and a not for profit volunteer organisation branch in Sweden, Action10.
Upcoming events
Webinars
Topics
Management strategies
- Research management.
- Laboratory management.
- Social enterprising.
- Sustainable development.
Other
- The scientific method.
- Publishing a scientific paper.
- Seeking a research grant.
Volume
10 h with examination
Price
EUR 10 per participant
EUR 1000 per SSA Institution
Internet access & zoom connection
HR&S encourages the participant to assess the quality of their internet connections and zoom links prior to the webinar, to ensure good audio and visual performance.
Output
A ROPE Strategy for Change Sheet. The Strategy for Change sheet supports the work for participants or the institution where the participants works. It is a road-map for reaching their ambitions.
Certificate
Upon successful completion of the training, participants will be issued a certificate.
Attendance
Each workshop attracts up to 50 participants.
Language
The presentations will be made in English. Interactions by delegates are welcome in English and in French.
ActionTalks & ActionEvents
Targeting cross-cultural understanding
IMPACT
We have, with small resources, improved the lives of 10,000 people. We have the potential to scale significantly.
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
We have facilitated 20 research and laboratory management workshops at scientific institutions in ten countries.
INNOVATIONS
We have facilitated one hundred innovations addressing products, services, production methods, sustainable economy models and modes of enterprising.
SOCIAL ENTERPRISES
We have facilitated the start and scale-up of seven hundred enterprises, many in vulnerable settlements generating income to people who were without it.
PERSONS AFFECTED
We have provided access to income, employment, products and services, improving the livelihood of ten thousand persons.
Our team
Our team is composed of dedicated experts with unyielding ethics and cover a wide range of expertise required. Our partners represent a variety of stakeholders: customers of products and services, small scale business owners, entrepreneurs, researchers, auditors, coaches, private sector, development institutions, investors, leaders, philanthropists and influencers.
ANNUAL REPORT 2022
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Message from CEO
Our vision is a world without extreme poverty. Our mission is to empower scientific research, innovation and social enterprising in sub-Sahara African countries through equal partnership. Within our mission lies transparency, accountability, truth, trust, harmony, equity and resilience, as well as sustainable economies and institutional capacity.
We aim to create communities where scientific research, innovations, business and social enterprising thrive so that it contributes to the development of the country and the region. Such communities, even if small, can be scaled and copied making our effort even more powerful and important. We argue for the empowerment of entrepreneurship and a stable business sector, that can i) offer services and products requested for by the population, ii) employ people and iii) contribute to the tax income of the government. We also argue for that that scientific findings and innovations are implemented through entrepreneurship and a profitable business sector.
We want to be part of empowering social contracts between a nation’s population and its government where tax income and institutional capacity is available so that the government can build powerful institutions addressing education, health, justice, rule-of-law, banks, a national bank and more. We have, with small resources, since the start in 2009 positively affected the lives of 12,000 people, and we have the potential to significantly scale.
All our operations are framed by our own management strategy ROPE that enables a transition from aid dependency to equal partnership between independent development institutions. The tool provides efficient and effective cross-cultural collaboration built on trust, transparency and accountability, where inputs, operational responsibilities and benefits are shared equally. Our Code of Conduct is rooted in our Ten Actions (TAct); needs and user driven interventions, equal partnership, real-time outcome planning and evaluation, strategic partnership, institutional capacity, sustainable economy, trust, transparency and accountability, resilience, knowledge sharing and visibility.
31 December 2022
Assoc. Prof. Cecilia ÖMAN
Founder CEO HR&S,
Founder President Action10
We reach out to
We reach out to academic institutions, advanced laboratories and institutions empowering entrepreneurs in Sub Sahara African countries (SSA), as well as international and national development institutions, the private sector SCR programmes and suppliers of scientific equipment.
academic institutions
We offer support to academic institutions in SSA, with the aim to increase the scientific output from, the world ranking of, as well as the financial income to, the university.
advanced laboratories
We offer support to laboratory managements in SSA, to address access to advanced scientific equipment while ensuring a sustainable economy for the laboratory.
institutions for entrepreneurs
We support institutions that support social entrepreneurs in SSA, to ensure profit, accountability and sustainability for their supported entrepreneurs.
Development institutions
We support institutions that support global sustainable development to reach their development goals while measuring progress and sustainable impact.
CSR programmes & Suppliers
We collaborate around Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and with suppliers of scientific equipment in order to strengthen their businesses through the HR&S programme.