WHAT WE DO
Bringing significant change to rural areas is a challenge, and the results of many previous endeavours have fallen short of expectations. Innovative and ambitious, ZayoHub is built on lessons from previous projects that have guided the programme design. ZayoHub is building a sustainable delivery model and facilitating capacity-building in poor rural communities.
Hubs are run by Agents, recruited locally, with skills in community organisation. Each hub typically has one male and one female agent. The agents’ income will ultimately be derived both from the hub’s paid-for services, and from service fees from organisations using the hub.
A WEAK ENABLING ENVIRONMENT
ZayoHub works in areas where most aspects of an enabling environment are absent. As such, communities cannot access opportunities that exist in better connected areas, and external actors are reluctant to reach in, to do business or provide services to rural communities.
ZayoHub breaks those barriers, stimulating progress towards multiple social and economic development goals.
ZayoHub does not aim to do everything itself! Having a ZayoHub in a community encourages and facilitates other service providers, businesses and organisations to reach further into remote communities.
developing the zayohub model
In the first two years of operation, ZayoHub has: