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Educate!

Educate! prepares youth in Africa with the skills to succeed in today’s economy.

Educate! leverages iterative learning to build highly scalable youth employment solutions aimed at unlocking the potential of the world’s youngest continent. We prepare youth in Africa to learn, earn, and thrive in today’s economy by 1) introducing an employment-focused school subject into secondary, and 2) delivering livelihood bootcamps for out-of-school youth, with a focus on rural girls.

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Overview

Web presence

2009

Established

380K

Children

4

Countries
Target group
Students upper
Updated
January 2024
By transforming education to reflect real-world circumstances and expanding learning opportunities for the hardest-to-reach youth, we can empower them to tackle unemployment, overcome barriers, and build a brighter tomorrow.

About the innovation

What does Educate! do?

Africa has the world’s youngest and fastest-growing population. By 2035, the continent is poised to contribute more people to the global workforce each year than the rest of the world combined.

At Educate!, we're obsessed with impact. We leverage iterative learning to build highly scalable youth employment solutions aimed at unlocking the potential of the world’s youngest continent.

Educate! prepares youth in Africa to learn, earn and thrive in today’s economy by: 1) introducing an employment-focused school subject into secondary, and 2) delivering livelihood bootcamps for out-of-school youth, with a focus on marginalized rural girls and young women.

Our work has been validated by several independent evaluations, which found positive outcomes on income, employment, gender equity, family planning and sexual and reproductive health, educational attainment, and climate change resilience.

To date, more than 380,000 youth have been meaningfully impacted across Uganda, Rwanda, and Kenya, and along the way, Educate! has become the largest youth employment and skills provider in East Africa.

We have been backed by top foundations such as Imaginable Futures, Big Bang Philanthropy, Jack Dorsey’s #startsmall, Generation Unlimited, CIFF and Echidna Giving. Educate! won a 2018 Klaus J. Jacobs Prize and a 2015 WISE Award, and has been highlighted by the World Bank’s S4YE's Impact Portfolio, an Al Jazeera documentary, BBC, The Brookings Institution as one of 14 case studies on scaling education, and the Gates Foundation as a Goalkeepers Accelerator. In 2022, we received a catalytic investment from philanthropist Mackenzie Scott to scale our systems change work.

Educate!'s long-term vision is to design solutions that measurably impact millions of youth across Africa each year. By 2025, we aim to scale our annual reach by 4x and measurably impact over 400,000 new youth.

Impact & scalability

Impact & Scalability

The importance of leadership and entrepreneurship cannot be understated. Educate! is doing a phenomenal job by providing practical and relevant education to ensure that the next generation of adults flourish in the future workplace. Educate! also provides online curriculum to increase their ability to scale.

HundrED Academy Reviews
The innovation has impacted the lives of thousands of youth who learn entrepreneurship skills by developing their talents in a creative way. It has a potential to scale as it can be implemented in any context.
This is a great innovation as it offers a compelling reason as to why education should be more practical-application focused. The results from the studies, including an RCT, show that this is a program that works and can be implemented elsewhere.
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Media

The Gendered Impacts of COVID-19
https://www.experienceeducate.org/all-blog/2020/6/21/the-gendered-impacts-of-covid-19
Educate!'s Coronavirus Response
https://www.experienceeducate.org/covid-19-response 
IPA Webcast: The Skills We Really Need: The Impacts of The Educate! Experience, a Skills-Based Education Program for Secondary School Students in Uganda
https://www.poverty-action.org/event/ipa-webcast-skills-we-really-need-impacts-educate-experience-skills-based-education-program
How skills shape the trajectory of life after school in Uganda
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2020/03/02/how-skills-shape-the-trajectory-of-life-after-school-in-uganda/
Does Educate! improve life outcomes for youth?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=gCFp0sKSrac
Adeline Creates the Future She Envisions
https://www.experienceeducate.org/all-blog/2019/11/25/adeline-creates-the-future-she-envisions
New RCT Finds Educate! Graduates Are Better Off Than Their Peers
https://www.experienceeducate.org/all-blog/2019/11/25/new-rct-finds-educate-graduates-are-better-off-than-their-peers
Educate! Program Director Joins Largest Gathering of Skills and Education Ministers at the Education World Forum
https://www.experienceeducate.org/all-blog/2020/3/4/educate-program-director-joins-largest-gathering-of-skills-and-education-ministers-at-the-education-world-forum
Educate!’s Approach Helping to “Leapfrog” Inequality by Accelerating Progress in Education
https://www.experienceeducate.org/all-blog/2018/12/10/educates-approach-helping-to-leapfrog-inequality-by-accelerating-progress-in-education
Educate! Wins 2018 Klaus J. Jacobs Award
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax62qs4VAI0&feature=youtu.be
Innovating for Gender Equity
https://www.experienceeducate.org/all-blog/2019/6/3/innovating-for-gender-equity
Rwandan Students Build Confidence and Resilience Through Business Ownership
https://www.experienceeducate.org/all-blog/2018/11/29/rwandan-secondary-students-build-self-confidence-and-resilience-through-business-ownership
Sarah's Path to Independence
https://www.experienceeducate.org/all-blog/2019/6/3/sarahs-path-to-independence
Educate! Graduate Daniel Creates Impact in His Community
https://www.experienceeducate.org/all-blog/2019/4/4/educate-graduate-daniel-creates-impact-in-his-community
Uganda's School for Life: Educating out of Poverty - Rebel Education
Uganda's School for Life: Educating out of Poverty - Rebel Education

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