JUST TRANSITION DESIGN LABS COHORT 1

  • In this session, you will be introduced to the instructor, Enna Uwaifo, and what you expect from the course.

    We will dive into the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and what it means for businesses in the apparel and footwear industry

  • In this session, you will be introduced to the B.E.L.L Framework and use the Kantamanto Market case study to explore how it can be used for end-of-life supply chain engagement. You will gain more understanding of end-of-life supply chain risks in informal second-hand fashion markets in Accra, Ghana and Johannesburg, South Africa.

  • In this session, we will explore how apply design thinking and creative thinking into bottom-up approaches to supply chain engagement.

    We will take a creative turn explore African/afro-diasporic artistic industries to understand bottom-up creative value creation and global trade.

    We will focus on possibilities of creative end-of-life supply chain engagement through working with creative communities to meet CSRD reporting standards.

    In this session, you will allocated into your team to create the creative end-of-life supply chain communications action plan and concept.

  • In this session, we will explore what it means to create real-world value for communities working within informal trades in Ghana and South Africa CSRD as a tool for circular economy investment

    We will review circular economy plans in Ghana and South Africa to and the potential for strategic investment for circular economy inclusion.

    You will continue to develop your creative supply chain engagement action plan and concept in your groups and create a plan within group to develop the product.

  • After week 4, in your groups, you will be tasked with developing your creative communications action plan and concept for either informal second-hand trader engagement in Accra, Ghana or Johannesburg, South Africa.

    You will be expected to meet with group members every week to develop your action plan and concept.

    Each week, you will have a 30-min check in with Enna Uwaifo to check your progress and ask any questions.

    You will also be matched and introduced to your student mentee from minoritised background interested in exploring careers in environmental and climate sector.

  • This is the last session of the programme, you will present your creative end-of-life supply chain engagement action plan and concept to the rest of the cohort and a panel of indigenous creative expert judges (TBC) to evaluate its on-the-ground engagement potential.

    Then there will have an evaluation of the programme to improve for next time.

    For those based in the UK, we will have in-person celebratory dinner in London (TBC)

As part of the European Green New Deal and the EU Textile Strategy, Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive will standardise ESG reporting.

Every listed apparel and footwear company (bar micro-enterprises) that sells apparel and footwear that sells into the EU will be required to report under CSRD.

Many companies will struggle with capturing end-of-life/post-consumer waste impacts without focused skills development in end-of-life supply chain education.

Introducing the Just Transition Design Labs - project based learning

Through the Just Transition Design Labs, you will create a creative supply chain engagement action plan and concept. You will be upskilled in textile waste supply chain risks and creative engagement to better enable you to create impact with CSRD and use regulatory compliance as a tool to facilitate strategic investment in informal end-of-life second-hand trades in Africa for circular economy inclusion.

We also want you to help with upskilling your future talent pool with the programme by introducing aspiring professionals into your professional network for ongoing self-directed mentorship and access to opportunities.

The programme

Diversify your talent pool and get ahead of deep impact and regulatory risk management

Details

When: June 7th 2025 - July 25th 2025

Where: Online (Zoom)

Time: Saturdays 11am - 2pm

Through our end-of-life supply chain project-based learning programme “Just Transition Design Lab”, we want to create the groundwork to leverage the fashion industry and waste management industry to guarantee compliance with Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, whilst facilitating opportunities for strategic investment in informal circular economies in Africa.

Immersive learning environment for deep impact

We want to create the learning environment for professionals to tackle end-of-life supply chain risks, such as: unmanaged waste systems, child labour risks, modern slavery risks and the urgency for a Just Transition using bottom-up design and creative thinking methods.

Through the Just Transition Design Labs, you will be upskilled in textile waste supply chain risks and creative methods engagement to better enable you to create impact with CSRD and ensure true action-focused compliance.

Course structure

This is a project-based learning course, the sessions will run for 3 hours every Saturday afternoon online. From week 1-4, Enna Uwaifo will teach live for 1 hour and 30 mins, with a break in between and then you will be given mini-projects to work on in the session and at home. Then week 5-8, you will work on creative supply chain engagement action plan and concept in your allocated groups and present your idea on week 8 to the cohort and surprise panel of expert judges,

Cohort 1 programme

The programme focuses on practitioners building the skills to develop a creative communication entry point product for end-of-life supply chain engagement. This seeks to facilitate an exploration of what strategic investment for circular economy inclusion in informal second-hand fashion economies could look like emerging markets using CSRD. The emerging market case study focus will be Ghana and South Africa.

Diversifying your talent pool with early exposure

We also want to address racial diversity gaps in the environment and climate sector. The sector has the second-worst record in racial equality in the UK. We will introduce young aspiring professionals from minoritised backgrounds with an interest in environmental and climate careers to you. This is for self-directed mentorship and supporting young diverse professionals to access to opportuniries

Learning outcomes

  • To learn the basics CSRD reporting, end-of-life supply chain transparency and Scope 3 environmental impacts

  • To explore bottom-up design thinking and creative methods to supply chain engagement in emerging markets and under-engaged communities.

  • To develop competency in creating real-world socio-economic value as well as, environmental value for communities that face the brunt of the environmental and climate crisis through exploring strategic investment for inclusion in the circular economy

  • To build creative and cultural supply chain engagement action plan and concept for entry points into supply chain engagement that empowers informal business communities to engage in supply chain transparency processes.

UNINHIBITED DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATIONS

Uninhibited Development Communications will connect investor communities engaged in environmental sustainability, climate adaptation and circular economies to the communities most impacted by the climate crisis and 21st-century polycrisis through new radical models of strategic investment communications and creative communications to build new investor relations.

Want to unlock your investment potential in climate and environmental sector and engage a new audience in your work?

See Strategic Communication plans below:

Under-engagement in climate education is climate adaptation vulnerability.

This means communities most affected by the climate crisis are under-invested in, and under-engaged in climate adaptation skills development and excluded from decision-making processes for strategic investment.

Core Investor Communities

  • Engaging financial investor communities engaged in environmental sustainability, climate adaptation and circular economy industries to potential investment opportunities in under-invested communities to generate social and economic value

  • Uninhibited Development Creative Communications Channel for innovation in racial equality, co-creation and inclusion in climate adaptation communications.

    Uninhibited Development Communications seeks to create creative communications projects with racially diverse communities outside of the environmental sector to support increased visibility and financial revenue within creative climate and environmental communications.

    We seek to leverage diversity in creative works and creative thinking to increase community engagement in climate adaptation strategies, action and policy.

CO-CREATION AND EQUITY MODEL CONSULTANCY

Introducing the B.E.L.L. Framework: Climate Adaptation, responsible investing, and the Just Transition requires cultural intelligence

The B.E.L.L. Framework is a design thinking approach that opens the window for new forms of climate adaptation investment rooted in cultural intelligence.

B.E.L.L. stands for:

Building from mutual respect

Existing exclusions

Linguistic transformation

Local contexts

This mode of design thinking seeks to move away from imposing top-down solutions to climate adaptation challenges, to focus on building the most relevant and accessible solutions to create real-world value for the communities that need it most.

This design thinking method is deeply rooted in embracing cultural heterogeneity and cultural intelligence to create real value for “client” communities to align strategic investment that strengthen and evolve existing systems for climate adaptation.