COGNITO STUDIO: V-NG-LLF 2 COGNITO STUDIO is the Linking and Learning Facilitator for Voice Nigeria, a role they rendered successfully. Current project is to enable them continue to manage Nigerian linking and learning platforms and supprot Nigerian grantees till the end of 2nd phase of Voice.

At the heart of development is the quest to ensure that all stakeholders are carried along to enshrine ownership on the pathway to sustainable change. A Linking and Learning agenda seeks to achieve just this – co-creation of knowledge as a result of responding to challenges with agility, sharing and capturing experiences, storing knowledge in an easily retrievable format, disseminating knowledge that can be utilized for implementing development initiatives which ensures representation of all stakeholder groups and asa result, produce evidence and innovative solutions to catalyze transformative changes for the most marginalized and discriminated groups in society

The task therefore, is firstly to use effective and innovative ways of ensuring that stakeholder groups have safespaces, employing the use of physical and virtual channels in a manner that upholds respect, guarantees participation, and allows ALL voices to be heard. This is so as to empower participants to be open minded, increase their capacity to speak about the things that matter to them and innovate transformative and inclusive solutions to the challenges they and their communities face.
Secondly, while it is imperative to support visibility efforts for right holders’ groups in the public domain working closely with the Voice hub, it should encompass channels that allow the use and generation of new knowledge that can be accessed without marginalizing any group based on any social or technological characteristic. Effortswill also be geared towards revitalizing or reconstituting communities of practice to enhance effectiveness by taking a critical look at channel(s), content, structure and improvements that can be made.

One of the goals of COGNITO is to foster collaboration and co-creation processes in the development space, using the knowledge captured to produce creative contents and deployment of those content to amplify voices and brands of the organization. Facilitating the Voice linking and learning has availed COGNITO the opportunity to achieve that goal, harnessing our experiences and skills in development program management, working with women, girls, adolescents, people with special needs, youths, and other often marginalized groups in creating, linking, andlearning. This has been one of the most rewarding works for COGNITO and as individuals and we hopeto continue to draw value from facilitating linking and learning.

Key deliverables expected from the project are:
• Amplify grantees’ activities.
• Enhance Linking and Learning Voice platforms.
• Facilitate inking and learning events, and capacity building.
• Promote innovations and produce publications.
• Facilitate the Voice Communities of Practice (COPs)

COGNITO is a social enterprise that uses knowledge management and communication to showcase the achievements recorded by development programs by taking intentional steps to ensure that knowledge leakages do not occur. They leverage on the power of storytelling to amplify programs impact, highlight innovative learnings thereby building and strengthening capacity to use learnings for re-programming. The COGNITO team personify design thinking for social innovation by using Human Centred Design (HCD) to support organizations in their quest to solve the problems they face by interrogating people and the environment to discover what we can do differently.