mAkE Interim Impact Assessment Report

This Interim Impact Assessment Report provides an overview of the main outputs, initial outcomes, and important lessons learnt from the mAkE project up to the end of Y2 (end-January 2024), and of the potential future sources of impact assessment data in in project year three (Y3) from February 2024 to January 2025.

It can be seen, across the core chapters of this Interim Impact Assessment Report, that the mAkE project has, through its first two years of work, successfully commenced delivery, in collaboration with its stakeholders, a broad portfolio of programmes. These programmes are grounded in the needs of  stakeholders, with those needs established collaboratively through numerous means, including in-depth stakeholder interviews, stakeholder focus group discussions (FGDs), online discussion channels, Community Call and Business Model webinars, and engagement with stakeholders at numerous events, in both Africa and Europe, devoted to fostering sustainable Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs)/makerspaces on both continents.