The Human-Centered Design Toolkit empowers NGOs and social enterprises in Africa, Asia and Latin America to address smallholder farmer needs. The toolkit (comprising print and online elements) leads groups through a process of fieldwork and data analysis, idea generation and prototyping, and implementation planning. Ultimately, the kit and the open source effort it inspired work to better the lives of those living on less than $2 a day in the developing world.

“An impressive study intended to create a common language around designing for social impact. Most impressive, though, is that the entire body of work is available to all via free downloads.”

–John Barratt, IDSA, president and CEO, Teague

Contact: Katie Clark: [email protected] Credit: Tatyana Mamut, Jessica Hastings, Fidel Calderon, Scott Tong and Sandy Speicher of IDEO Client: International Development Enterprises, Heifer International, International Center for Research on Women and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation