2016-2018

PREPARING YOUTH TO THRIVE IN THE INFORMAL ECONOMY

2016-2018

EDUCATE!

Educate! tackles youth unemployment by designing and delivering education programmes that equip young people in Africa with the skills to attain further education, overcome gender inequities, start businesses, get jobs, and drive development in their communities. We funded Educate! in Uganda to roll out its Educate! Experience curriculum to 66 schools in eastern Uganda.

www.experienceeducate.org

CHALLENGE

Across Africa, more than 7 million young people enter the job market each year. However, currently most of them will remain unemployed or underemployed and live on less than $2 a day. Current curricula and teaching methods don’t consistently prepare students for what’s to come following graduation.

ACTION

Since 2009, Educate! has been working to improve students’ work-readiness via an experiential learning model called Educate! Experience that gives them the opportunity to practice hard business skills (like opportunity identification and business planning) and soft skills (like critical thinking and collaboration) in secondary schools. The curriculum comprises sessions delivered over two school years.

Youth mentors are trained to coach students through the Experience curriculum and teachers are trained to use experience-based interactive teaching methods.

IMPACT

Between 2016 and 2018, 6,500 students enrolled in the Educate! Experience curriculum across 66 low-resourced schools. In every school, the Educate! students established a Student Business Club with 80 members to apply and practice their entrepreneurial skills.

6,500

STUDENTS ENROLLED

Between 2016 and 2018

STUDENT BUSINESS CLUBS ESTABLISHED

To encourage students to practise their entrepreneurial skills

110

TEACHERS TRAINED

in experience-based teaching methods