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.