This presentation was part of the 7th African RCE Meeting, 2-4 August 2017 in Lusaka, Zambia “RCE Initiatives: Milestones for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals”.

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UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT
SCIENCE INSTITUTE
TRIPLE HELIX PLUS+ MODEL:
AN INNOVATIVE PARTNERSHIP IN LINE
WITH SDG 17
C.M. Uche; I. Etela and O. Akaranta
RCE Port Harcourt , Nigeria.
RCE, PORT HARCOURT
UNIPORT

2. Abstract
Triple Helix is a model based on Government-University-Industry
Partnership. It has been observed that professional bodies
consist of professionals from Government, University and
Industry. Integrating professional bodies into the Triple Helix
model gives the Triple Helix Plus+ model for sustainable
development. Triple Helix Plus+ is an innovative partnership in
line with SDG 17. Entrepreneurs in Action for US (ENACTUS), is
an international nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring
students to improve the world through entrepreneurial action
and provides a platform for teams of outstanding university
students to create community development projects that puts
ingenuity and talents at the centre of improving livelihoods.
ENACTUS operating within the Triple Helix Plus+ model at RCE-
Port Harcourt has successfully executed many sustainable
development projects. The discussion of some of these projects
is the main thrust of this paper. 2

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Introduction
SDG 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and
revitalize the global partnership for sustainable
development

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The SDG 17 Target: Multi-stakeholder partnerships
Introduction Contd.

5. Introduction Contd.
Fig. 1: Triple Helix Model
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Government
University
Industry

6. Introduction Contd.
What is ENACTUS?
 Entrepreneurs in action for us (ENACTUS) is an
international student’s organization
 It prepares students and engage them in embarking
on sustainable development projects that positively
impact their host communities .
 By engaging in community projects students also
prepare themselves for life after school.
 ENACTUS gets support and sponsorship through
partnerships.
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7. Fig. 2: Triple Helix Plus+ model
(PB = Professional Bodies)
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Introduction Contd.
Government
University
Industry
PB

8. Fig 3: University-Community Engagement in achieving SDG 17
within Triple Helix Plus+ Model.
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Introduction Contd.

9. ENACTUS AT RCE PORT HARCOURT
 Operating within Triple Helix Plus+ Model,
ENACTUS at RCE-Port Harcourt has successfully
executed the following sustainable development
projects:
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Skill for Life
Objectives of the project
 To identify a pool of youths and women without
means of livelihood due to low skills.
 To train the identified youths and women in skills
that will help them become self-reliant and
productive in their communities.
 To raise funds to start micro enterprise for the
most successful trainees.
 To monitor and evaluate their progress and ensure
best practices for sustainable development.
ENACTUS AT RCE PORT HARCOURT Contd.

11. Implementation Strategies
• Needs assessment and project planning by ENACTUS
Uniport
• Selection of skills to be acquired
• Grouping of the skills into 5 and Engagement of 20
resource persons
• Selection of unskilled, unemployed and economically
disadvantaged youths and women in the four
communities bordering the University of Port
Harcourt.
• Pre-training stage, the training stage and post-
training stage.
• Supervision and monitoring of the project by
ENACTUS Uniport. 11

12. Implementation Strategies Contd.
Fig. 4: Graph showing the five skills grouping and percent of the participants in
each skill group relative to the 200 participants engaged in the project.
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Skills grouping and percent of participants in each group

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Fig. 5: Trainees were taken through practical training on various
skills

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Fig. 6: Different Items produced by the participants after their
training (a = shoes, b = hand bag, c = liquid soap).
Fig. 6b: Hand Bag
Fig. 6a: shoes
Fig. 6c: Liquid Soap

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Green Power Technology
Objectives of the Project
 To solve the problem of air and noise pollution from
generator set
 Access knowledge from researchers and lecturers in
the partnering departments
 Build a noiseless, non fuel power generating device
 Test run, hand over to community
 Follow up

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Implementation strategies for Green Power
Technology
 Brainstorming and study of research findings in the
depts. (with the help of lecturers)
 Producing a schematic diagram
 Buying and assembling materials as specified in the
schematic diagram
 Build the GPT Generator
 Test run in the community
 Monitoring and evaluation

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Fig. 7: Brainstorming Session

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Fig. 8: Construction of the GPT System (Dr Uche chatting with a
staff from ENACTUS Nigeria office while supervising the

19. GOTECH - An ICT Training
Objectives
 To train teenagers on practical usage of computer
 Draw a training guide for the students
 Draw business plan for the project
 Organise a holiday training camp
 Train 22 teenagers on Android programming as a
test run of the project
 Follow up and evaluation
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20. Implementation Strategies for Gotech
Project
 Selection of adverts/marketers from ENACTUS team
 Selection of the trainers/resource persons from the
team
 Awareness creation and sensitization of the schools
to sign in and subscribe to the programme
 Registration of the interested teenagers (school
children)
 Training proper which lasted for 3 months
 Monitoring and evaluation
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Z
Schools
Z
Fig. 9: Enactus Connecting the school children, ICT Company
(TEENCODERS) and Community-Partnership

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Fig. 10: Training Sessions

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Fig. 11: Certificate of Participation is awarded from Enactus
and Teencoders to participants after the training

24. CHOKOR OVEN
Objectives
 To solve the problem of smoke spreading from fish
smoking drums in Choba market
 Carry out needs assessment of fish smokers and their
customers
 Research and brainstorm on the problem
 Create awareness and train fish smokers on better and
innovative way of fish smoking
 Construction of CHOKOR Oven
 Commission and hand over to market women
 Monitoring and evaluation.
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25. Chokor Oven: Implementation Strategies
 Needs assessment and analysis
 Brainstorming and analysis of research findings
 Awareness campaign within Choba community
 Selection and training of 30 women who sell smoked
fish
 Construction of CHOKOR Oven and its shade
 Commission and hand over to the market women and
community
 Monitoring and evaluation
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Fig. 12: Preparation for the Construction of Chokor Oven

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Fig. 13: Preparation for the Construction of Chokor Oven
Shade

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Fig. 14: Chokor Oven and the Fish Seller in Choba Market.

29. Objectives
• Neutralizing soil acidity which is as a result of the
high petro-chemical industrial activities in city of
Port Harcourt.
• To boost farmers income through the supply of
cheap fertilizer.
• To rid the environment of harmful and possible
sources of dangerous gases through the
recycling of both industrial and agricultural
wastes.
Agro Fertilizers
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30. Objectives Contd.
• To create wealth from waste.
• Creating employment for the locals who get
involved in various product process.
• Creating awareness on the importance of poor
organic farming and the risk the environment
faces due to continuous application of
conventional fertilizer.
• Reduce the cost of foods in the market as more
local farmers engage in this way of farming.
• This will have a significant improvement on the
amount of food produced locally.
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31. Implementation Strategies
 Needs assessment was carried out on communities
badly hit by soil acidity.
 Researches on how to develop a better planting
environment for the affected communities.
 Selection of materials initially termed as waste to
produce fertilizer which neutralizes soil acidity.
 With the help of lecturers in Faculty of Agric Partners
with enactus went for mass production and
implementation of the project on target area.
 33 farmers are currently using our fertilizer and 2
youths are undergoing training on the production of
this fertilizer. 31

32.  Up to 5 tons of waste has been recycled and
about 20 tons would be recycled over the next
12 months.
 One (1) community has been impacted and 16
more communities to be impacted over the next
18 months.
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Implementation Strategies Contd.

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Fig.15: The seedlings are planted in a nursery to
test run the Enactus fertilizer

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Fig. 16: Production of Agro Fertilizers

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Chicken
droppings
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Egg shells
Groundnut shells
Fig. 17: The Raw Materials for the Agro Fertilizer

36. Challenges of Partnership/SDGs
The Triple Helix Plus+, as good as it sounds has
challenges such as:
 More finance is required to carry out more
projects
 Harmonizing differences in culture among
partnering teams
The way forward is to adopt a win-win principle.
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37. Conclusion
 It is obvious that partnership is important for the
achievement of SDGs
 Triple Helix Plus+ involves the contributions of
government, university, industry and professional
bodies towards a sustainability strategy for the
university, industry and society.
 SDG partners include WHO, FAO
 The ENACTUS Uniport team interacts with the
partners in the Triple Helix Plus+ and link them to
the community through RCE Port Harcourt.
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