Educate!

💥Last year, Educate! impacted 133,320 youth in Africa. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝟑𝟗𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎, marking a 1,000-fold increase since we first launched over a decade ago! Read the highlights in our 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭, out now: https://lnkd.in/evyH3m5D 👉🏿 We scaled our education reform and teacher training model nationwide in Rwanda, as well as strengthening partnerships with governments in Tanzania and Kenya. 👉🏿 We refined the impact of our livelihood bootcamps for out-of-school youth, focusing on increasing young women’s agency. 👉🏿 We supported youth to become gender equity and climate advocates. Thanks to our partners and champions. With your help, we'll keep building on this work! 🚀 Learn more about how we're scaling our impact and about the inspiring youth creating a brighter future: https://lnkd.in/evyH3m5D

"Secondary education must integrate academic learning, well-being, and employability skills to avoid fragmented policies and investments." We were thrilled to join the inaugural State of Secondary Education (SOSE) Convening alongside global leaders, educators, funders, and innovators working to unlock the potential of secondary education. At Educate!, we’re committed to shaping systems that prepare youth not just for the workforce but for life, empowering them to thrive and lead in their communities and beyond.

After an intensive 4-week training program, Educate! is proud to celebrate the first cohort graduation of Out-of-School Youths in Homabay County,Ndhiwa Sub county. Through hands-on learning, they have gained vital skills in entrepreneurship, from financial management, capital sourcing and record keeping to setting up and scaling small businesses. With the guidance of a dedicated training team, these youths are now equipped to navigate the challenges of the economy and create lasting impact in their communities. We are excited to see these young entrepreneurs embark on their journeys, building businesses and driving change. Together, we are shaping a future of opportunity, innovation, and economic empowerment for the next generation.

🌍 Are you attending the 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (𝐒𝐎𝐒𝐄) 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 hosted by Transform Schools this week? Join us to examine what barriers still exist for secondary education, and how we can address them. Our CEO and Co-Founder, Boris Bulayev, will be joined by experts from The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), The Ohio State University, UC Irvine, What Works Hub for Global Education, and Breakthrough Trust in a panel: 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐄𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞: 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 📅 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝟐𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 ⏰ 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞: 𝟏𝟏:𝟑𝟎 𝐀𝐌 - 𝟏𝟐:𝟏𝟓 𝐏𝐌 (𝐆𝐌𝐓) 📍 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬, 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧, 𝐔𝐊  💻 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤:  https://lnkd.in/eCEHnANk We’re eager to share how Educate! is reimagining education by focusing on transferable skills, project-based learning, and scalable, context-driven solutions. See you there! 🚀

📣 Are you at the 𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 (𝐈𝐐𝐄𝐂) in Tanzania? Don’t miss our Head of Partnerships, Tobias Mulupi, as he joins the panel discussion: "𝐑𝐞𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐕𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐕𝐄𝐓 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐍𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬." 🗓️ 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟑 🕒 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞: 𝟑 𝐏𝐌 - 𝟒 𝐏𝐌 📍 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐮𝐬 𝐍𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞, 𝐃𝐚𝐫 𝐞𝐬 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐚𝐦 As Tanzania pilots its new Business Studies subject — which will be required for all secondary students in both General and TVET pathways — Educate! is supporting the government's vision as technical advisers. The reform will offer secondary students the choice between General Education and TVET, making TVET accessible at lower secondary level and equipping all students with foundational business skills to foster self-reliance. Tobias Mulupi brings the Business Studies perspective in the TVET, alongside leaders from DVV International Tanzania Startup Association and the Institute of Adult Education. Key topics include: - Aligning TVET with industry demands - Strengthening industry-education collaboration - Engaging employers in TVET - Innovative approaches and technologies - Addressing the skills gap in underserved communities - Ensuring inclusive and accessible education for all learners See you there! #IQEC #IQEC2024 #MoEST #TanzaniaEducationReform #CompetencyBasedLearning #ContinuousAssessment #Education

🚀 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞! 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 (𝐈𝐐𝐄𝐂)! Tanzania’s Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology will lead a session titled "𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐮𝐦 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐚𝐧𝐳𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚: 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬.” Moderated by Educate!’s Regional Head of Strategic Projects, Sylvie Kinabo, the session will explore: - 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐮𝐦 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐠𝐨𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 - 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 - 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 - 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐮𝐦 - 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 🗓️ Date: November 12, 2024 🕒 Time: 2 PM - 3 PM 📍 Location: Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre, Dar es Salaam This is a pivotal moment for Tanzania as the government pilots the new secondary school subject of Business Studies, which is expected to be a core required subject for all three million youth in lower secondary. Educate! is proud to support Tanzania’s vision through a six-year memorandum of understanding, establishing us as technical advisers. Our team will also be at a booth on-site so visit us to connect! #IQEC #IQEC2024 #MoEST #TENMET #TanzaniaEducationReform #CompetencyBasedLearning #ContinuousAssessment #Education

🚨 Join us 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 for a special World Bank webinar: 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠. Our CEO Boris Bulayev, Regional Director of Partnerships Kamanda Kamiri, and Group Strategist Diana Mwai will discuss strategies for transforming secondary education systems, focusing on making the most of every dollar invested. 🗓️ 𝗧𝗢𝗗𝗔𝗬 🕘𝟗–𝟏𝟎:𝟑𝟎 𝐚𝐦 𝐄𝐓 | 𝟓–𝟔:𝟑𝟎 𝐩𝐦 𝐄𝐀𝐓 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤: https://lnkd.in/eSYHv62B For many years, our approach to secondary education reform focused on supporting governments to co-design and roll out a single, employment-focused subject. The idea was that going deep on one subject was the most cost-effective, achievable, and impactful way to improve how national secondary education prepares youth for employment. We've recently shifted our view. We now think there is an even more narrow action that can drive deep and sustained impact through the system. That action is 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬. We've been working on exactly this with the government in Rwanda. With partners, we helped build a continuous assessment data system that has been rolled out nationally. And this year, we're supporting the government to roll out and embed project-based assessment across four mandatory national subjects. In the years to come, we hope to do the same in Tanzania. We hope you’ll join us to hear more!

Very excited to deliver this webinar to the World Bank tomorrow at 5 pm EAT/9 am EST. It's open to the public if anyone is interested! At Educate!, we really believe that you create the most scalable impact by picking the point of greatest leverage, and then going as deep as possible on it. For many years, our approach to secondary education reform focused on supporting governments to co-design and roll out a single, employment focused subject. The idea was that most reforms fail and that going deep on one labor market relevant subject was the most cost-effective, achievable and impactful way to improve how national secondary education prepares youth for employment. Here is our SSIR piece about that: https://lnkd.in/dc8wzFbw We've recently shifted our view. We now think there is an even more narrow action that can drive deep AND sustained impact through the system, which governments actually want. That action is PROJECTS. It's really hard to measure skills. Yet every competency-based curriculum (CBC) reform aims to build practical, employment skills. Projects (done right) are the LEADING indicator of skill development (e.g. you can see whether students are doing projects and the quality of those projects way before you get an exam result, and can consequently make tweaks to improve). And we wonder whether projects and project-based assessment are the best anchor to a successful CBC reform. We've been working on exactly this with the government in Rwanda. With partners, we helped build a continuous assessment data system that has been rolled out nationally (read on GPE blog: https://lnkd.in/dvHtj7v6). And this year, we're supporting the government to roll out and embed project-based assessment across four mandatory national subjects. In the years to come, we hope to do the same in Tanzania.  We're not sure where this will go but think this idea has a lot of promise. I've always been taught that systems change requires distilling the behavior you want down to the simplest action possible (thank you Kevin Starr The Bridgespan Group Abe Grindle Tim Hanstad and others). It took us 8 years to figure that out in Rwanda, but after many cycles of test-learn-adapt (https://lnkd.in/ddR-c6RT), we finally got to something that seems simple enough. Lots to learn, but this has been a big breakthrough for us. #EducationReform #WorkforceReadiness #ProjectBasedLearning #CompetencyBasedCurriculum #AfricaEducation #SkillsForTheFuture

📣🌍 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝑩𝒍𝒐𝒈 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒕! As a data-driven organization, we’ve developed systems and processes to test our impact in real time – evaluating elements like program schedules and startup capital. This lets us understand what works best for youth before scaling. In an article for Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), Hannah Ornas, Phillip Okull and Meghan Mahoney explain how Educate! uses agile evaluation methodologies to build and iterate on solutions for greater impact. Our approach enables us to continuously refine solutions to maximize impact, leading to significant improvements in youth outcomes, such as: 💰graduates of our in-school model in Uganda earning nearly double the income of peers by the end of secondary school. 📈consistent impact from our bootcamps for out-of-school youth with participants achieving relative income gains of 50% or more, three to six months after participation. 🔗 Learn more in the blog: “𝗧𝗲𝘀𝘁, 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻, 𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁: 𝗠𝗮𝘅𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗥𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗱 𝗘𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.” https://lnkd.in/gCW2eHz5 #RapidImpactAssessment #DataDrivenDecisions #DataDrivenResults #DevelopmentImpact #EvaluationFrameworks #MonitoringandEvaluation #OutOfSchoolYouth #ProgramDesign #ContinuousEvaluation

I deeply enjoyed my time at the African Philanthropy Forum in Marrakech. Two highlights: 1) A very fun panel on The Role of Philanthropy in Revolutionizing Education in Africa (https://lnkd.in/ds4rsdiE). I learned a lot from everyone who participated. I also shared a few messages/ideas, which we've been thinking about for some time. Please share any feedback! - Education is a legacy solution and most views people hold on education are based on the education they got 20-30 years ago. What holds education back is that we are not designing for the constraints of the world today, but rather trying to replicate the education that many of us got. - Time does not equal quality. We think that time in school and length of education leads to results. But as many models, including our livelihood bootcamps, show short and highly relevant experiences can be disproportionately impactful (https://lnkd.in/ei2dvWKd). - We have to both be idealistic and brutally pragmatic. We’re often just idealistic. We absolutely should aspire to give every child the same education we’d give to our own children. AND at least in an African context, we are so far from a resource perspective from getting there. And by pushing for the value, in practice we get to a highly inequitably outcome - a few get it all, and many get nothing. 2) Getting to connect on a much deeper level with a few really engaging humans on topics completely unrelated to the above, ranging from the immigrant experience to being a parentified child to labor migration. Thank you Mosun Layode for including me and the entire African Philanthropy Forum team for a memorable few days in Morocco. #APF2024 #APF24