Opening Up Pathways to Secondary Education
We need to put secondary education on the global policy agenda. We also must create pathways to quality and relevant secondary education in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Tag: Africa
Micro-Savings: Are We There Yet?
Micro-savings have been described as the “Next Big Thing” in the global development agenda. But we are not there yet, particularly with regards to young people living in poverty.
Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa
How do we promote bottom-up entrepreneurship in emerging economies? This is the central question that we will be discussing this week at the Legatum Convergence—an annual event held at MIT’s Legatum Centre for Development and Entrepreneurship.
Let us explore this question from a youth perspective: Young people represent the fastest growing demographic in Africa. Many are already economically active—some motivated by necessity to help their families. In Nairobi and Dakar, we are seeing young entrepreneurs demonstrate resourcefulness and inventiveness with a range of enterprises. With access to the right opportunities, skills, mentors, social networks, technology, and finance, they have enormous potential to be a driving force for economic growth and social progress... (continue reading this blog post)
Learning, Earning, and Saving
Last week, I spent time talking and listening to more than 100 women and adolescent girls assisted by the MasterCard Foundation’s partnership with BRAC. This program is scaling access to microfinance as well as education, training and support services across Uganda to help two million people improve their livelihoods. More than 95 percent of microfinance members are women, and about 40 percent of them are young, between the ages of 18 to 30 years. I asked them for ideas about what they need to overcome poverty, and what kind of opportunities they seek... (continue reading this blog post)
Digital Job Creation For Youth
Last week in Kenya, I had a glimpse into the future. It is a space that integrates outsourcing demands, IT skills, entrepreneurship, and the formal economy with employment opportunities for the poor, particularly women and youth.
Welcome to the world of micro-work. I was visiting a Samasource training center in Nairobi. Samasource is a social enterprise with a mission to provide productive and dignified computer-based work to women, youth, and refugees living in poverty... (continue reading this post)
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Youth Ideas: A Rich Resource
The energy, imagination and participation of youth is critical to overcoming global challenges.
Can the Secondary Education Gap Be Closed?
UNESCO’s 2010 Education for All Global Monitoring Report is sobering, particularly when it comes to statistics in Sub-Saharan Africa. Almost half of the global, out-of-school population is in this region and more than half of them are girls.
Education plays a pivotal role in building human capital and increasing productivity of the economy. In particular, secondary education... (continue reading blog post)
The Agency of African Girls and Women
Africa is being described as a new economic frontier, according to recent reports from McKinsey Global Institute and the Africa Progress Panel. The former assesses opportunities for business investment in Africa’s future growth trajectory, while the latter highlights social and developmental issues that need to be addressed to fuel progress. Both reports converge on a central question—what will sustain such growth? The African Progress Panel underscores one driver often missed by economists, governments, and policy makers: the central role of women in the economy.
In spite of shouldering a disproportionate burden of the continent’s poverty and facing barriers to education, financial services, resources and property rights... (continue reading blog post)
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