Employment-focused Subject Delivered in Secondary Schools
Secondary education provides critical infrastructure to reach young people at scale — and at a key point of labor market transition. Yet, many education systems struggle to meet the needs of young people and reflect real-world demands.
Rising debt burdens, resource constraints, and harmful legacies of colonialism pose challenges for education systems. As a result, learning rarely translates to economic opportunity.
Educate! partners with schools, teachers, and governments to integrate an employment-focused school subject into national education systems — driving impact for generations of youth at scale.
Building Skills for Employment in School
We deliver this evidence-based experience directly in schools and partner with ministries of education to advance national, employment-focused curriculum reforms.
Together, we’re working to address the mismatch between learning and life after school, transforming classrooms into launchpads for employment that prepare young people for work.
Advancing Sustainable, Systematic Change Across Africa
Leveraging a foundation of evidence and over a decade of experience working directly in schools, we have developed an end-to-end reform solution and partnership model that integrates employment-focused learning into national education systems and advances sustainable, systems-level policy change.
Government Partnerships
This work began in Uganda in 2009 with the development of an employment-focused subject delivered directly to secondary students by local youth Mentors. Since then, we have extensively evaluated our approach, developed a comprehensive systems-change model, and scaled government partnerships across the region.
Educate! has served as a technical advisor on employment-focused reforms in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, and Tanzania. We currently have active partnerships with ministries of education in Rwanda and Tanzania, where we are working to advance the integration of employment-focused reforms nationwide.
Copylefting: It’s only right
Educate! believes in paying it forward. Our curriculum was developed with the support of leading organizations around the world. We show our gratitude for their help and support by freely sharing our curriculum with everyone working for a common goal.
We are completely open-source with our curriculum. What does that mean exactly? We copyleft it, the opposite of copyright, to ensure that we can have the greatest impact possible around the world. Much of the curriculum can be applied across cultures and many of our copylefting partners tailor the case studies and other aspects of the curriculum to their local contexts.