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Commonwealth Innovators

Commonwealth Innovation and Youth Awards winners

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John Oroko 2019
Innovation
Awards
Kenya

John Oroko

John Oroko is social entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Selina Wamucii, a pan-African social enterprise that integrates smallholder farmers, pastoralists...
Wayne Neale 2019
Innovation
Awards
Saint Lucia

Wayne Neale

Wayne Neale is the COO of Greening the Caribbean. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Sociology and a Masters in Community Economic Development in the...
Rosette Muhoza 2019
Innovation
Awards
Rwanda

Rosette Muhoza

Rosette Muhoza co-founded My Green Home a social enterprise that promotes environmental sustainability through recycling plastic wastes into construction...
Nitesh Kumar Jangir 2019
Innovation
Awards
India

Nitesh Kumar Jangir

Nitesh Jangir is an electronics engineer specialising in embedded system design, with experience that includes stints working in defence and industrial...
Peter Tibigambwa 2019
Innovation
Awards
Uganda

Peter Rubashumira Tibigambwa

Peter Rubashumira Tibigambwa has spent the last six years working in prisons designing community driven programmes that seek to ensure that detainees...
Noor Shahiwan 2019
Innovation
Awards
Malaysia

Noor Shahiwan bin Ismail

As a strong believer in social entrepreneurship, Shahiwan is actively promoting solar technology to satisfy the electricity needs of developing countries...
Rayvon Stewart 2019
Innovation
Awards
Jamaica

Rayvon Stewart

Five years ago more than 40 babies born in Jamaican hospitals became infected with a lethal bacteria - half of them died. The bacteria Klebsiella is spread...
Atta Ul Haq 2019
Innovation
Awards
Pakistan

Atta ul Haq

Atta ul Haq is the founder of the Youth Association for Development (YAD) Pakistan. Under his leadership, YAD has worked to strengthen peace building,...