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young people worldwide are not in employment, education, or training (NEET)

18

million jobs in Sub-Saharan Africa will need to be created each year until 2035 to
accommodate youth labor market entrants.

50

percent of tomorrow’s human capital will lack the skills/ qualifications to participate
in the emerging global workforce

Practice Areas

Driving sustainable impact in education through innovation across all our practice areas

Education and Skills

We provide our partners with growth engineering processes focusing on the student/ job seeker as the end-user as an integral part of the solution.

SMEs and Entrepreneurship

We provide our partners with a combination of research, data strategy, systems design, and entrepreneurship capacity building.

Impact Analytics

We partner with a diverse range of fund managers and high-impact organizations to optimize their social impact outcomes – via data analysis and real-time dashboards.

Fundraising and Partnerships

We foster, build and co-create effective public-private partnerships that will educate future generations and create jobs.

Disconnect between education and industry needs

Bridging the gap between current traditional education systems and a changing global labor market, as a result of strongly increased industrialization processes, will be the challenge of this century. This can only be solved by engaging private sector in the education systems transformation.
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Low GDP growth and a strong increase in the working age population will result in a lack of productive employment opportunities, especially in low‐income countries. This will further exacerbate social and economic inequalities between high- and low-income countries. (ILO)
ILO

Our Clients

We believe in working together with governments, donors, international organizations and private sector to achieve our mission. 

Global Jobs Crisis

In the last decade, while the world has been sliding into an unprecedented global jobs crisis, donors have stepped up to fund global education and employment programs. Here are some examples:

ILO Global Jobs Pact

The Pact addresses the social impact of the global crisis on employment and proposes job-centred policies for countries to adapt according to their national needs.
2009

Global Business Coalition for Education

The Global Business Coalition for Education is a movement of businesses committed to ending the global education crisis and unleashing the potential of the next generation. The world is sliding into an unprecedented global jobs crisis
2012

Solutions for Youth Employment (S4YE)

Solutions for Youth Employment (S4YE) is a global program that brings together donors, governments, foundations, private sector companies, NGOs and youth to support catalytic programs to increase the number of young people engaged in productive work.
2014

Decent Work Agenda

As part of the Decent Work Agenda, employment creation, social protection, rights at work, and social dialogue became integral elements of the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
2015

Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth

Decent Jobs for Youth is the global initiative to scale up action and impact on youth employment in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
2016

Education Cannot Wait

Education Cannot Wait (ECW) is the first global fund dedicated to education in emergencies and protracted crises
2016

Generation Unlimited

Generation Unlimited is launched at the 73rd United Nations General Assembly, in September 2018. The global multi-sector partnership was created to meet the urgent need for expanded education, training and employment opportunities for young people, aged 10 to 24, on an unprecedented scale.
2018

African Union’s Continental Education Strategy

2021

Launch IFC Vitae

Vitae, an IFC initiative, helps higher education institutions improve their graduate employability.
2021

ILO Global Jobs Pact

The Pact addresses the social impact of the global crisis on employment and proposes job-centred policies for countries to adapt according to their national needs.
2009

Global Business Coalition for Education

The Global Business Coalition for Education is a movement of businesses committed to ending the global education crisis and unleashing the potential of the next generation. The world is sliding into an unprecedented global jobs crisis
2012

Solutions for Youth Employment (S4YE)

Solutions for Youth Employment (S4YE) is a global program that brings together donors, governments, foundations, private sector companies, NGOs and youth to support catalytic programs to increase the number of young people engaged in productive work.
2014

Decent Work Agenda

As part of the Decent Work Agenda, employment creation, social protection, rights at work, and social dialogue became integral elements of the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
2015

Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth

Decent Jobs for Youth is the global initiative to scale up action and impact on youth employment in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
2016

Education Cannot Wait

Education Cannot Wait (ECW) is the first global fund dedicated to education in emergencies and protracted crises
2016

Generation Unlimited

Generation Unlimited is launched at the 73rd United Nations General Assembly, in September 2018. The global multi-sector partnership was created to meet the urgent need for expanded education, training and employment opportunities for young people, aged 10 to 24, on an unprecedented scale.
2018

African Union’s Continental Education Strategy

2021

Launch IFC Vitae

Vitae, an IFC initiative, helps higher education institutions improve their graduate employability.
2021
Hayat Essakkati
Director Innoducate

Innovation meets Education

Innoducate focuses on both the demand (employers) and supply side (job seekers) of the global jobs crisis by addressing challenges faced by employers as well as education institutions through (digital) skills development, financing, and public-private partnerships.

  • Systems change

    The current systemic skills mismatch between skills and jobs could lead to about $8.5 trillion in unrealized annual revenues and 85 million unfilled jobs by 2030. To achieve systems change in education, a new relationship between educator and employer must be established for effective workforce development. 

  • Innovation

    The demand- and supply-side constraints of the global jobs crisis limit the options for decent employment, especially in low-and middle-income countries. Innoducate uses an innovative approach in developing inclusive solutions for education and employment challenges. 

  • Partnerships x Data x Impact 

    Innoducate believes in the power of multiplication by leveraging partnerships, data and analytics with the aim of optimizing data-driven decision making and empowering social impact outcomes for (women- owned) SMEs, education institutions and ultimately: job creation.

Explore our Experience in Africa

Innoducate has a broad experience in advising organizations, international financial institutions and funds in formulating solutions for education and employment, and structuring impact frameworks for SME investments with a geographic focus on North- and Sub-Saharan Africa. 

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Morocco
Fundraising and Partnerships

TVET Financing

Analysis report on regional differences in labor demand and -supply to determine successful business models for TVET centers in support of public-private partnerships

Algeria
Education and Skills

Employability - TVET

Improving the employability of graduates within universities and vocational centers in Algeria.

Tunisia
SMEs and Entrepreneurship

Assessment SME Investments

Developed the assessment portfolio and -analysis of all private sector investments from multilateral development banks targeting SMEs and PPPs.

Africa
SMEs and Entrepreneurship

Financial Inclusion in Africa

Developed elaborate financial inclusion reports on Egypt, Nigeria and Cote d’Ivoire for an international intelligence company

Senegal
SMEs and Entrepreneurship

Youth Entrepreneurship

Supported a West African bank’s regional expansion through the design of an integrated risk management framework and youth financial inclusion program

North Africa
Fundraising and Partnerships

Technical Assistance Fundraising

Raised 2 million dollars for a 4-year World Bank- implemented Youth Policy & Engagement program

Increasing inequalities between poor and rich countries: "Low GDP growth and a strong increase in the working age population will result in a lack of productive employment opportunities, especially in low-income countries. This will further exacerbate social and economic inequalities between high- and low income countries."
ILO

Featured projects

Learn more about Innoducate’s approach. Scroll through below to explore some of our projects and programs. 

Global
SMEs and Entrepreneurship

Employment Solutions and Fundraising

For a Multi-Donor Trust Fund dedicated to youth employment, we managed a multi-stakeholder partnership supporting youth employment opportunities by financing innovative solutions of the private sector, civil society, and governments. Within this program, we led the organization of a pre-fundraising conference attended by 300 participants within the education and employment sector and developed different partnership- and business models for the fund and its activities. 

East / West Africa
Fundraising and Partnerships

Fundraising and Partnerships

We developed a strategic partnership between a healthcare fund and a UN organization which led to a four-year funded program further strengthening the transformation of the digital economy in Tanzania and Nigeria by supporting the digitalization of Health SMEs and financial services through partnerships with local stakeholders such as government, digital solution providers and private health associations. This program provides digitization options and technical assistance to Health SMEs to automate their health management systems and business operations.

Morocco
Education and Skills

Tertiary Education Financing

We were asked to understand the market for Education Financing in Morocco via a sectoral approach, with the aim of facilitating private sector investment into the sector with the objective of developing a financing market for private, affordable education. In order to determine key stakeholders with a demand for financing such as private universities and vocational training institutes and identify partner financial institutions, we performed a basic market assessment, identified the gaps and challenges in the financial sector and developed a business case for financing education by i) structuring a student loan scheme and ii) assessing the size of a potential student lending facility. This study addressed the financial sector constraints and tertiary education opportunities for establishing education financing for students from low-income families to attend private universities with high employability rates. 

Tonga
Impact Analytics

Community Development Analytics in Tonga

We were asked to create a real-time dashboard to analyse the baseline for a community development project in Tonga, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The dashboard integrated datasets from different sources allowing our client to get real insights into community profiles at national, island and community levels. This created a better understanding of the population and led to a more efficient use of resources for the government. Our solution, using Microsoft Power BI, enabled the client to see a highly detailed and disaggregated maps and visuals of each of their communities of interest at the click of a button. 

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