Livelihood Bootcamps

Our evidence-based model aims to equip youth with the skills to start a business, seek employment, and increase earnings within local labor markets — while building the agency and confidence to drive towards their goals and remain resilient within an evolving economy.

Impact is delivered through a multi-week skill-building experience, where young people engage in an empowering and practical skills curriculum, coupled with real, hands-on experience.

Participants actively apply knowledge through the launch of a business within local labor markets — immediately translating new knowledge and skills into action and earnings. 

Throughout the bootcamp and beyond, youth receive individualized mentorship and coaching provided by a locally-embedded trainer and mentor.

In East Africa, over 50% of young people are not in secondary school, and across the continent, just 1 in 20 rural girls are on track to complete secondary education.

Eastern and Southern Africa is home to the highest concentration of youth living in extreme poverty, and it is the only region where the number of children out of school is growing globally.

Young people across the continent face significant barriers both to accessing education and building the knowledge and skills needed for employment — while insufficient formal job opportunities mean that over 90% of youth will enter Africa’s informal sector.

Expanding Economic Opportunity and Agency for Rural Young Women and Girls

Educate! is designing and delivering livelihood bootcamps for young women and girls across rural communities in Kenya and Uganda, with the goal to prepare young people unable to access formal education for the world of work.

Produced by The Agency Fund

We are currently building a foundation of evidence and insights to inform a scalable, evidence-based, transformative youth employment solution for the millions of young people unable to complete secondary school.