Impact
Success stories
From ideas to opportunities — what happened after people came to RIO Center.
- Innovation
From a Classroom Idea to a Working Health Referral App
Patients arriving at Mogadishu hospitals without referral records faced long delays while staff reconstructed their history by phone, and clinics had no reliable way to track whether a referral had been acted on.
- 2
- Clinics piloting
- 3
- Prototype iterations
- 4
- Team members employed
- Research
A Thesis That Nearly Stalled, Defended With Distinction
A postgraduate student had collected data for eight months but could not make the analysis answer her research questions, and her submission deadline was ten weeks away.
- 5
- Sessions
- 10
- Weeks to deadline
- Distinction
- Outcome
- Entrepreneurship
A Tailoring Business That Doubled Its Customer Base
A tailoring business with strong word-of-mouth had no way to reach customers beyond its immediate neighbourhood, and the owner had no marketing budget.
- 2×
- Customer growth
- 2
- New employees
- 4
- Months to result
- Consultancy
A Ministry Department That Now Plans With Evidence
A planning department was producing annual workplans that bore little relationship to its strategic objectives, and had no indicators against which to report progress.
- 5 years
- Strategic plan
- 34
- Indicators defined
- 18
- Staff trained