• Capacity Development Provider

The African Management Initiative runs high-impact learning programmes for entrepreneurs from idea to growth stage, as well as management development programmes for management teams in mature organisations. It partners with corporate ED/CSI teams, accelerators and NGOs to develop the entrepreneurs they support, and rigorously measure impact. As a blended learning provider, it integrates interactive, simulation-based 'Learning Lab workshops' with the 50+ online business and management courses that have been developed with top African business schools.

  • Stages of Support

    • Idea
    • Start-up
    • Early
    • Growth
    • Mature
  • Nonfinancial support delivery mechanism

    • Classroom / seminar training
    • Online / mobile
    • Cohort or group support
    • Peer to Peer / Network-based Support
  • Sectors of Focus

    • Sector agnostic
  • Stakeholder or Business Model Focus

    • Base of the pyramid
    • Social enterprise
    • Women entrepreneurs
    • Science, engineering or invention based businesses
    • Accessibility
    • Advocacy
    • Citizen empowerment
    • Rural communities
    • Gender inclusion
    • Youth entrepreneurs
    • Urban communities
    • Resiliency / climate change
    • Ethical sourcing
    • Minority or previously excluded population
    • Franchising
    • Refugees and migration
  • Impact objectives

    • Access to education
    • Employment generation
    • Income/productivity growth
  • Verticals

    • EdTech