African Youth Engagement Goes Viral:

Young Leaders Discuss Expanding Economically Engaged Youth Networks

Global Youth Economic Opportunity Summit 29 September 2016

Is delivering services to each individual directly the only way to scale? Is there a multiplier or cascading effect if you instead select and train youth leaders who can in turn train other youth and so on? Can you think of a time when a beneficiary got it and carried your programs forward on their own?

Launch a viral youth empowerment multiplier

CONNECTED THROUGH AFRICAN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY

• ALA believes that the solution to Africa’s problems is the development of ethical, entrepreneurial, and transformative leaders

• ALA’s mission is to identify, develop, and connect at least 6,000 leaders for Africa over the next 50 years

• Our leadership model is simple: potential; practice; and opportunity • ALA develops leaders across stages – starting at age 17 in 2-year secondary school

We seek out young Africans with the

potential for leadership

We embed them in the practice of leadership to stimulate intellectual

growth

We connect them to powerful networks and

opportunities

Cascade: ALA Leaders reach out to help many more youth

Replicate excellent teaching tools Joel Baracka, Uganda

Examples

Inspired by ALA classes developed supplemental learning tools: - English, science & tech - Game based approach - Focused on topics with weakest

curriculum & teaching capacity

Used by 500 primary school children

Expand youth changemaker ecosystem, 24 countries

121 ALA students trained as facilitators • ran 35 camps in 24 countries • trained 791 youth*

Two-day peer-driven sessions aspire to: • increase confidence • build corresponding skills • connect youth to other

action takers

* OY outcomes: 92% reporting increase in entrepreneurial mindset; 84% opportunity to practice entrepreneurship in locally relevant ways

ALA STUDENT AND ALUMNI VENTURES

318 4 152

469

25

5.3 Million

25 Countries across the continent are home to

ALA student and alumni-run ventures

Who are we? Joseph Munyambanza Eddy Gicheru Oketch Julius Shirima COBURWAS International Youth Organization to Transform Africa (CIYOTA)

Founder Ongoza Darecha Ltd.

DRC/Uganda Kenya Tanzania

African Leadership Academy, Westminster College

ALA, Trinity College, Yale University

ALA, College of Wooster

Agroexperts, Continued development of COBURWAS on campus

Emthonjeni- agribusiness for children

Duka Bora tuck shop Grow Green Itsuseng Project

2013 Global Citizen Award alongside President Ellen Sirleaf

2013 Top 30 Under 30 Most Inspirational Young People on the African continent Salt’s 2015 top 30 under 30 most innovative and influential youth in Africa

Commonwealth Young Person of the Year 2015

Adviser to UN Secretary on Global Education since 2012 99 under 33

Equity Bank, UNESCO International Youth Peace Ambassador

Standard Chartered Private Equity, Equity Bank, Coca-Cola

Meet the ALA grad leaders and their initiatives

• What is the need that you are addressing? • How does your initiative meet this need? • What have you achieved so far in the course of running your

initiatives?

From this… To this…

Discussion issues • Can you talk about one beneficiary of yours that is reaching more people e.g.,

viral effect? • How do you think about tradeoffs between short-term and long-term? • How do you think about the trade-off of quality and quantity? • What assumptions are we making when we build large group, short duration

programs? • Are we addressing long term problem with short term solutions? • Is it difficult to scale flexible approaches – because scale implies standardization. • How do you create a virtuous cycle of youth helping other youth?

Discussion questions for attendees

• Can you think of examples when selecting youth who demonstrate leadership capacity may actually drive more impact and ultimately reach more people?

• How do you think about short-term and medium-term tradeoffs in your work?

• How can we get better at identifying which youth have the inclination and motivation to help others? What support do they need?

• How do we better match youth with specific interventions (based on behavioral, mindset and demographic characteristics as well as the usual criteria of academic results and level of disadvantage)?

Appendix

“My interactions with fellow students as well as the classes, especially entrepreneurship and leadership, have empowered me and showed me what great potential lies in young people.” - Joseph Munyambanza, DRC/Uganda, ALA grad panelist

“I remember my first classes at ALA. The teacher asked us what we thought and we went through our notes to report back what we had read. Then the light when on in my head, the teacher was asking for my thoughts. That was transformational.” - Sheila Chukwulodzie, Nigeria, ALA grad at Amherst College

Breadth and depth of experiences foster leadership development

Developing excellent young leaders

High potential teens/ young adults

Customized support

Relevant network

Global education

and training

Leadership practice and

work experience

ALA is more than a secondary school: Lifelong Engagement

2-year program

University/ Gap year

Young professional/ entrepreneur

Beyond

• Academics • Center for

Entrepreneurial Leadership

• African Studies • Campus businesses • External Opps

• Transition into Uni • Social/ emotional

support • Professional

development • Career counselling • Internships in Africa • Community/family

• Jobs in Africa • Entry-level

Professional Development

• Entrepreneurial support

• Lifelong Learning • Pan African network

16-19 years 19-23 years 23-28 years Beyond Almost 900 in network From 45 countries 100% A Level Pass rate Take entrepreneurship program to home countries

Results so far

Attend 60 universities $65 million in scholarship aid accepted

139 graduated uni 68% working on the continent

600 internship & job placements 6m stakeholders reached through alumni ventures Encourage individual passions and develop character and curiosity

High potential teens selected for leadership characteristics

not just academics

Opportunity to practice – employment matches made through ALA’s Africa Career

Network funded by MasterCard Foundation

University: Colorado College (United States) Degree: Political science, magna cum laude Company/organisation: Last Mile Health Country: Liberia Interest: Working in public health and help in the rebuilding and strengthening of Liberia’s public health systems after the Ebola outbreak.

James Earl Kiawoin

Alumni are already having an impact and becoming

internationally recognized for their work

Julius Shirima Wins Commonwealth Youth Award

Julius was awarded by the Queen as the most impactful person under the age of 35 in the 54 Commonwealth Countries.

Julius Shirima

Sahara Farah Abdi • Sahara is the oldest of nine children. Her

family is of Somali descent and they are from a nomadic tribe in the northeast of Kenya

• Sahara convinced her father to allow her to complete school and not be sold into marriage. Her first marriage proposal was at age 10.

• She committed to her studies and was the top performer in her school and country on the Kenyan Certificate of Secondary Education examination.

• She is an Equity Bank Wings to Fly Scholar and became her family’s primary breadwinner through her internship at Equity Bank.

ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP AT THE CORE

The study and practice of Entrepreneurial Leadership is at the core of ALA’s academic program:

• Experiential Learning – engaging in periodic activities and games that serve as simulations

• Project-based Learning – practicing design-thinking while balancing personal and team dynamics

• Socratic Method – facilitating discussions by creating effective inquiry-based environments

• Grade-free Environment – no A, B, Cs instead we use 360-degree assessments and surveys to foster development

ENTREPRENEURIAL THINKING + VALUES-BASED LEADERSHIP + BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SKILLS

ADMISSIONS CRITERIA

We travel across Africa every year looking for exceptional young people who are demonstrating immense leadership potential. What exactly are we looking for? • PURPOSE • LEADERSHIP POTENTIAL • ACADEMIC READINESS

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

• Infusing direct experience with the learning environment and content

• Example: “Compassion Experiential”

– To teach empathy and compassion to our young leaders, we simulated life in a refugee camp for 24 hours

– Young leaders divided into the security forces, the refugees the UNHRC volunteers, and the media and journalists.

ALGROUP: Developing and engaging leaders to transform Africa

African Leadership Group (AL Group) is an ecosystem of institutions which share a common vision: transforming Africa by developing and connecting a new generation of ethical, entrepreneurial leaders.

African Leadership Academy - Anzisha prize - Global scholars and catalyst term - Africa Careers Network (ALA and MasterCard Scholars)

African Leadership University African Leadership Network African Advisory Group

African youth unemployment “High vacancy rates in the presence of large scale unemployment confirm the existence of skills mismatches”

“In a survey among experts on 36 African countries about the major challenges youth face in labor markets, 54% found a mismatch of skills between what job seekers have to offer and what employers require to be a major obstacle.”

“In South Africa the situation is even more extreme, with 3 million young people in NEET and 600 000 unemployed university graduates versus 800 000 vacancies (The Economist)”

Wage employed

Vulnerable & underemployed

Unemployed

Source: African Economic Outlook based on Gallup World Poll 2010; based on middle income countries

Higher education levels are not correlated with higher employment