Social Innovation in the Global South (SIGS)

Powerful, lasting, meaningful, and globally replicable initiatives originated by social innovators and thought leaders in the Global South.

The Social Innovation in the Global South (SIGS) program backs local changemakers building solutions rigorous enough to travel. By connecting innovators across regions through ongoing collaboration and knowledge exchange, SIGS demonstrates what we have always believed: that transformative answers to the world's hardest problems are already being forged. They simply need a platform worthy of them.

SIG Focus Areas

We focus on three broad areas of societal ideas and change

Institutions of the Heart

Initiatives bordering on the emotive, creative and redemptive well bring of society

close-up photography of heart shaped fairy lite on brown sand
close-up photography of heart shaped fairy lite on brown sand
Institutions of the Head

Ideas and initiatives bordering on the mental and intellectual well bring of the society

Ideas focused on the well-being of families and their transgenerational impact

Institutions of the Hip
man in bonnet sitting on top of mountain
man in bonnet sitting on top of mountain
a group of people standing on top of a sandy beach
a group of people standing on top of a sandy beach