• Capacity Development Provider

Harambee Employment Youth Accelerator

Moving Youth from Piece Work to Self-Employment to Entrepreneurship to Expansion: Harambee is a not-for-profit social enterprise with extensive experience building solutions and innovations that can solve the global youth unemployment challenge. They partner in South Africa and Rwanda with business, government, young people and many others who are committed to results that can work at scale. They are currently working with communities and eco-system partners to understand the pathway to income generation and entrepreneurship for the youth to unlock more earning opportunities for unemployed youth.

  • Stages of Support

    • Idea
    • Start-up
    • Early
    • Growth
    • Mature

  • Nonfinancial support delivery mechanism

    • Cohort or group support
    • Peer to Peer / Network-based Support

  • Intervention Type

    • Conduct research on the sector
    • Promote and educate about entrepreneurship
    • Interventions in deprived communities to build income generation opportunities and awareness as the first step to entrepreneurship

  • Sectors of Focus

    • Sector agnostic

  • Stakeholder or Business Model Focus

    • Social enterprise
    • Rural communities
    • Youth entrepreneurs
    • Resiliency / climate change

  • Impact objectives

    • Community development
    • Employment generation
    • Income/productivity growth
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