The Nexus Project
In 2040, Africa will be the continent with the largest workforce in the world. However, today’s job prospects are insufficient for the working-age population, and formal jobs cannot absorb this increasingly talented and creative body of workers. Entrepreneurship is a promising approach to “transform job seekers into job creators”, hence the challenge – How can […]
Supporting youth social entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa (SYSE)
Social Entrepreneurship Opportunities to solve Youth unemployment in SSA. Despite Sub-Saharan African youth demonstrating clear social entrepreneurial intention or practice, considerable barriers exist for social entrepreneurs starting and scaling their enterprises. South Africa, just like other SSA countries, experiences significant obstacles to social entrepreneurs starting & scaling their enterprises, including lower personal investment funds & […]
STEM and Social Impact Business Incubator
Africa currently has the youngest population in the world. Africa, therefore also has the world’s fastest-growing labour force, which means the continent needs to upskill the workforce, create jobs and increase job creators. Innovative interventions are needed to equip the youth with the necessary skills to gain employment and upskill the job creators to create […]
SHAPE Agri-entrepreneurship
SHAPE Agri-entrepreneurship Systemic Action Learning and Action Research (SALAR) initiative for social innovation According to United Nations, 60% of the jobless population in Africa consists of young people. The unemployment rate amongst youth in South Africa stands at 29.2% compared to the global estimate of between 6.3-6.5% (World Bank, 2021). This rate of unemployment hinders […]
Project KENTEN
A third of the global annual food production, approximately 1.3 billion tons, is lost due to post-harvest losses and farmers bear the brunt of post-harvest losses. Project Kenten (Local language Twi for “basket”) explores problems facing agri-business in Ghana from a logistics perspective. From Post-Harvest Losses (PHL) of up to 40 per cent from rural […]
Innovation for the digital economy
The long-standing issue of youth unemployment in South Africa has recently intensified due to digital transformation and changes to business models prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic. While entrepreneurs and other self-employed people have been particularly badly hit, with significant decreases in trading activities and high levels of uncertainty affecting well-being, some entrepreneurs have thrived and […]
Innovation entrepreneurship & higher education
Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Higher Education Digital Ecosystem is a partnership between the University of Lincoln UK, Coal City University, Enugu, Nigeria, and the African Development Institute of Research Methodology (ADRIM) Enugu, Nigeria. The project is aimed at advancing entrepreneurship education (EE), entrepreneurial skills, digital skills and employability skills of students and graduates. Nigeria has a […]
Supporting people with disability through design and entrepreneurship
Inclusive Innovation – Supporting people with disability through design and entrepreneurship South Africa has around 3 million people living with disabilities, equating to approximately 7.5% of the country’s population. Many find it challenging to get work, resulting in a significant section of the most vulnerable people of South Africa without work or access to a […]
Graduate employability within the Higher Education framework
Graduate employability within the Higher Education framework: The Ghanaian perspective It is estimated 230,000 Ghanaians annually seek to enter the labour market. However, the formal economy can offer jobs to about 2% of this number. Consequently, 225,000 are left without employment. Furthermore, about 50% of those employed are underutilised as they lack entrepreneurial skills. Additionally, […]
GBIP- Ghana Bio-enterprise Innovations Partnership
Africa is disproportionately affected by Infectious diseases, yet it is the least producer of biotech solutions. Furthermore, the paucity and inaccessibility of the lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines in Africa is a contemporary example of how urgent it is for Africa to develop its own biotech industry. Most sub-Saharan (SSA) Universities teach biomedical and physical sciences but […]
