Educate!’s vision is to design solutions that measurably impact millions of youth across Africa each year.
Educate!’s ultimate goal is to create a grassroots movement of young people attaining further education, overcoming gender inequities, starting businesses, and getting jobs, ultimately driving sustainable development in their communities.
Educate! spent over a decade building the most replicable and cost-effective solution possible that can reach massive scale. We’ve measurably impacted over 250,000 youth to date.
We are now the largest youth skills provider in East Africa.
Educate!’s in-school model launched in 24 schools in 2009, and since then, we have worked to build the most innovative, sustainable, scalable, and cost-effective solution possible. In 2016, we launched in our second country, Rwanda, and scaled to over 350 schools in Uganda to reach 14,000 youth directly and 240,000 youth more broadly. In 2016, we also continued to quality test our in-school model at scale through rigorous monitoring and evaluation, confirming that we can drive costs down and make adjustments where necessary to ensure that youth continue to receive the most impactful, cost-effective intervention possible. In 2019, we partnered with the governments of Uganda, Rwanda, and Kenya and impacted over 46,000 youth in and out of schools while reaching 470,000 learners more broadly.
Educate!'s long-term vision is to design solutions that measurably impact millions of youth across Africa each year. Our plan is to grow our reach 4x by 2025.
Exponential Empowerment
Each of our models have been locally designed with context and exponential empowerment in mind, built to provide the most impact for youth, students, teachers, and partners.
Educate! Targets Sustainable, Cost-Efficient Scale
Before launching our flagship in-school model in Uganda in 2009, Educate! ran an intensive research and development process to build and refine the most essential and replicable skills-based post-primary education components to ensure each of our models are built for scale.
Reviewing existing research and problem theory design to better understand our target population
Connecting with 10 global organizations to gather other approaches to youth entrepreneurship and leadership development
Visiting and learning from 19 leading organizations in India to understand successes in scaling for long-term impact
Launching four (3-6 month) experiments with various ideas for re-design
The result? A massively repeatable and cost-effective set of core components, designed to measurably impact millions of youth across Africa each year.
Read Brookings' Millions Learning in-depth case study on our scale and expansion for more.