Learning Through Action: Impact Reflections from the Global Solvers Co-Lab 2025

From July 6–12, the Global Solvers Co-Lab 2025 brought together 20 participants from over 15 countries in Gotha, Germany, for an intensive, practice-driven residency. Far from a conference or showcase, the Co-Lab functioned as an applied learning space where systems leadership was not just discussed it was lived.Throughout the week, participants engaged in deep intention-setting, cultural immersion, storytelling grounded in lived experience, and collaborative systems thinking sessions. They worked through real-time project challenges, reflected on barriers to impact, and visited grassroots organizations in Erfurt to connect global insights with local action. The Co-Lab offered a rare opportunity to translate theory...

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Scaling Deep: A Systems Approach to Social Impact Leadership

In today’s rapidly evolving world, leadership in the social impact space is undergoing a profound transformation. A 2017 study by FSG and the Collective Impact Forum found that over 80% of successful social change efforts involve cross-sector collaboration and shared leadership structures. Moreover, systems thinking, empathy, and the ability to work across differences are emerging as the most critical competencies for 21st-century changemakers. In this reality, leadership is no longer about commanding from the front; it's about asking better questions, facilitating dialogue, and enabling sustainable, community-led transformation.Peter Mukuka, Founder and CEO of Men of Honour, embodies this shift. His organization...

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Melton Fellow begins “Students and Mentorship Advancement Program (SAMAP)” to curb school dropout in Bawku West District, Ghana

A level 100 student of the Ashesi University, Mr Godwin Abugbilla, has begun a mentorship project in the Bawku West District of the Upper East Region to help curb the spate of school dropouts in the area. The move dubbed, "Students and Mentorship Advancement Program (SAMAP)" with a grant from Ashesi University is aimed at providing a source of encouragement and mentorship activities to students to help retain them in school to complete. Many students of school-going age in the Bawku West District have dropped out of school in search of quick riches through illegal mining (galamsey) while others especially the girls had become...

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