From lab to life and back

Timeline Key Activities

2025-26

  • 1 Sept 2025 | Official Start project
  • Exploratory meetings among partners and with policy makers ( village- district- Water Board - Wamiruvu- ...)
  • Launch Survey "Use of Artificial Intelligence in Monitoring and Evaluation"
  • Nov- Dec 2025 | Research internship IOB student: Mapping Citizen Science in Uganda & Tanzania
  • Nov- Dec 2025 | Research internship IOB student: Exploring the use of AI in M&E
  • Exploratory meeting
  • February 2026| Kick off week: all partners meet one week in Mzumbe University to finalise plans and start
  • Start animation process with 5 villages to identify needs and priorities of community
  • Selection community monitor (3 per village) + selection of human sensors ( 12 per village)
  • April - May 2026 |Co-created course on community based monitoring and citizen science in Tanzania with focus on water and climate monitoring
  • Installing of weather stations in five villages
  • April 2026 |  Baseline survey and first round of data collection of story telling by human sensors and monitors
  • May 2026 |  From Lab to Life seminar @ Mzumbe University where the results of the project were shared with the university academic staff as well as duty bearers, including a photo exhibition presenting the photos collected through the photo voice process
  • June 2026| Hosting a panel on citizen science at the EADI conference in Antwerp
  • July 2026 | Second round of story telling and human sensors data sharing & Focus group discussions with monitors and human sensors
  • July 2026| Follow up on Animation process and the action plans developed by the communities
  • August 2026| Check & maintenance of the weather stations installed 
  • September 2026| Presentation Dissertation by Lauren De Beer on research based on L2L project data "Understanding Climate Change"
    Adaptation in Rural Tanzania: Risk and Coping Appraisal, Place Attachment and Eco-anxiety".
  • September 2026 | Presentation Citizen Science research IOB at Scivil Network event by Prof. Nathalie Holvoet & Dr. Sara Dewachter
  • September 2026 | Presentation "Strengthening Participatory M&E through Citizen Science: Evidence from Rural Tanzania" at TanEA MEL week by James Marandu & Dr. Doreen Kyando