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AfriLabs Capacity Building Programme

AfriLabs has designed a 3-year capacity building programme targeting our AfriLabs Community and other hubs across Africa. The French Development Agency will finance the programme for the next 3 years.

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The Challenge

Many persons and organisations set up hubs to help young people—who are more likely to be unemployed—start companies and pick skills that will be useful in the worldwide economy of today.

Among many other capacity gaps, lack of necessary training and management skills by hub managers compromises the capacity of the hubs to deliver to their target population as well as the effect of support organisations’ work and investments in the ecosystem.

The Solution

AfriLabs has conducted studies over years on best practices, capacity shortages, and hub needs. These studies have guided AfriLabs in designing and supervising a set of projects aimed at hubs. Now supported by the French Development Agency AFD, these projects will be enlarged and revised. Along with useful toolkits, a hub residential program, hub capacity building awards, the new extended program will feature a new certification course in collaboration with a prominent African academic institution.

Our Forecast Influence

We want to reach the following

1000 hub managers and/or staff accredited
22 awards to AfriLabs member hubs annually
24000 hub community members impacted annually

Relatively AfriLabs

Comprising 174 members in 45 African nations, AfriLabs is the biggest pan-African network of technological and innovation centres in Africa.

Established in 2011, AfriLabs aims to create a community around fast growing tech hotspots—innovation centres acting as gathering places for investors, developers, and entrepreneurs.