Fanaka Studio
Your reference partner for the co-creation and acceleration of innovative and turnkey solutions for development in Africa!
About
About Fanaka Studio
You are a State, an international development organization, a public or private institution, a development bank, an NGO, and you work for the economic development of African territories?
You wish to testing new ways of working to address development challenges in Africaand thus implement your programmes and projects more effectively and efficiently?
You wish to implement innovative solutions focused on development issues on the continent, but do not have the time, agility, methodology and human resources to complete these projects in a limited time?
Fanaka Studio is your partner!
We offer new approaches to programme and project development, so that you can find innovative solutions to the complex challenges of development in Africa: we initiate and accelerate the development of your tools and services, then deliver them to you on a turnkey basis with support and/or maintenance.
Our goal is to quickly generate value for you and your partners, and thus foster sustainable growth and inclusive development in Africa.
Our positioning
Our positioning: innovation for impact.
Fanaka Studio is a startup studio that develops innovative and ready-to-use solutions in response to development issues in Africa: entrepreneurship, digital...
With Fanaka Studio, we help our partners to put innovation at the heart of their action, to reinforce their avant-garde positioning in the field of support to the development of African countries and to achieve their agenda.
We position ourselves as the privileged partner of our clients and partners during the upstream reflections concerning their development issues in Africa over the next few years. Thus, we diagnose together in order to discover potential "win-win" collaboration opportunities.
We propose two approaches:
Co-creation of innovative solutions
Together we identify problems and project opportunities in line with our clients' expectations, and then we design and deploy solutions together.
Acceleration of projects
We develop and deliver all tools and services to customers in an agile manner in a limited time.
Fanaka Studio is the key partner to catalyze innovative solutions and address the economic and social development challenges of African countries!
Our innovation process
We mobilise our "expert-entrepreneurs" to meet the needs of our clients and partners with agility, reliability and speed, while guaranteeing the long-term sustainability of the solutions deployed.
We focus on innovative ideasIt is important that we use a variety of methods, including iterations and rapid experimentation, to change the way we approach the resolution of problems. development issues in Africa.
a. We organise a series of brainstorming workshops (3) - with partners and their beneficiaries - to identify together opportunities in line with their objectives.
b. We diagnose opportunities where we can quickly add value and propose solutions.
c. We quickly design a "mockup", i.e. a model of the user interface, to help clients visualise what the solution to their problem might look like.
a. We define a business model or sustainability strategies for the solution to be deployed in order to ensure its long-term sustainability.
b. We establish a budget for the development and deployment of the solution over 2 years.
c. We contract with our clients the terms of our collaboration on the basis of the above.
a. We quickly design the "Minimum Viable Product" or prototype of the solution and then test it directly with some of our clients' beneficiaries in order to gather maximum feedback.
b. We are developing a first version of the "V1" solution by integrating the selected functionalities as well as the first feedbacks collected.
c. We test V1 with our partners and your beneficiaries, and then correct any bugs.
We deliver the final version of the solution.
a. We help our customers to get started with the solution and train them in its use.
b. We support the launch of the solution to your beneficiaries and their partners.
a. We dedicate resources to our clients and partners to ensure that their beneficiaries can effectively use the tool over time.
b. We provide them with a team to improve the functionality and performance of the solution in the medium term.
c. We support our customers in the progressive scaling of the solution in different locations.
Thus, we provide faster and more sustainable solutions and transform our clients' approach by introducing new protocols and practices that accelerate the testing and dissemination of solutions within and between countries.
What characterises Fanaka Studio?
3 key words characterize us:
Agility
We mobilise resources that have evolved in the start-up world and that are able to adapt to our clients' objectives, constraints and timetables in order to design tools that meet the needs of their beneficiaries.
Reliability
We apply rigour and methodology in our operations to ensure that our projects are carried out in the best possible time and conditions.
Sustainability
We develop solutions that are sustainable and viable in the long term.
