Impact Lab 2: Event Report

World Pulse’s Second Impact Lab was held on June 26, 2025, at 3.30 PM UTC via Zoom. The event is an innovative offering designed to elevate community-driven initiatives through advisory and peer collaboration. The event brought together six participants to engage with a panel of four experts in a collaborative engagement to understand ways to scale, enhance, and sustain the impact they are making on ground. Our six participants had powerful ideas:

1. Chinyere Kalu aims at providing a handbook to support 500 women who are in their menopausal age, by giving them guidance and insights on how to prepare for this stage of their lives and to help them identify things they should know and learn about their bodies and minds.
2. Edna Chepkurui aims to provide educational support on reproductive health, personal health and hygiene, self-awareness and expression, and success in education and carer development. This comprehensive education program is intended for 500 girls aged 9 to 24 years.
3. Grace Iliya wants to empower 100 girls from camps for internally displaced persons and low-income households in Kaduna, Nigeria, through strctured sports programs in order to enhance mental health, promote education, develop essential life skills, and foster personal growth.
4. Kristine Yakhama aims to strengthen the climate resilience and socio-economic wellbeing of 3000 women working in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) communities in Kakamega County. By integrating climate-smart practices, capacity building, and financial inclusion, she aims at addressing intersecting vulnerabilities related to climate change, gender inequality, and economic marginalization.
5. Mosfeka wants to support 1000 unemployed ICT graduates in order to reshape the employment landscape. She hopes to offer them a platform to engage in freelancing and participate in the global job market.

Our panelists, Beth Lacey, Cynda Collins Arsenault, Eunice Owino, Sharmin Prince, and Dr Suchi Gaur offered guidance and meaningful feedback to support these initiatives on ground. Each panelist had meaningful questions specific to each initiative, and brainstormed ideas with the community member to specifically understand what they’d tried, what they wanted to try, and what they’d imagined would be most useful for them on ground. They offered powerful leads and directions as well - for instance, when to lean on community, when to lean on funding, and where to seek specific funding for particular projects. Their expertise and work on ground spoke for itself through their phenomenal insights.

Alongside the live feedback within the Impact Lab, our community also engaged actively, providing feedback for each initiative by way of guidance using a Padlet platform that helped sustain a steady stream of insights and guidance.

Watch the recording here: