Impact Lab 3: September 2025

World Pulse’s Third Impact Lab was held on September 25, 2025, at 2.00 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. Abiodun Alabi: Abiodun founded Motherhood NG Initiative, and spearheaded a simple hack: She used Google Calendar to help children and mothers in her community stay healthy. She wants to reach 50,000 mothers and children through her initiative.
2. Honorine Ngenwi: Honorine hopes to work with her community toward family planning and sexual and reproductive health rights, and provides guidance, training, and resources on ground. She wants to impact 5000 young girls and women.
3. Katrina Khan-Roberts: Katrina is looking to use nature-based processes and solutions alongside Indigenous knowledge and new technology to address climate adaption, food sovereignty, water, and resources. She is looking to use storytelling and innovation to build her strategy.
4. Mamisoa Raveloaritania: Mamisoa looks to teach basic internet skills, content creation, and storytelling to support young women in accessing business opportunities. She hopes to run a pilot for 20 to 50 women to equip them with skills such as digital literacy, mobile money use, content creation and storytelling, basic computer skills, and access to online learning platforms and job opportunities.
5. Nadra Almahdi: Nadra aims to support survivors of gender-based violence within and beyond Sudan, through the provision of comprehensive services and resources for survivors, and to campaign to end gender-based violence targeting Sudanese women. She hopes to impact 1200 women.
6. Nombini Dingela: Nombini aims to set up a newspaper to support the spread of information in a positive and uplifting manner for members in her community. Her initiative is intended to benefit 2500 people.

Our panelists, Anukriti Naithani, Meghana Srinivas, Sharmin Prince, Stella Paul, and Su Belagodu offered guidance and meaningful feedback to support these initiatives on ground. The panelists arrived with expertise and experience of their own that related in one way or another to one or more participants’ areas of work, so their feedback was particularly meaningful. They offered powerful leads and directions as well - for instance, setting up a business model, building collaborations, and where to seek 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.