Harambee as an agency is a not-for-profit social enterprise building African solutions for the global challenge of youth unemployment.
Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator is a not-for-profit social enterprise building African solutions for the global challenge of youth unemployment. In South Africa we work with many partners who are committed to results that can work at scale – including government, the private sector, civil society, and over 1.5 million youth.
We are committed to changing the system by removing the barriers that keep millions of young South Africans locked out of opportunity. Our vision is of a growing economy and a society that works, powered by the potential of young people.
OUR ROADMAP
In recent years, government leaders, business executives and civil society champions have been aligning around common coalitions, evidence-based solutions, and more coordinated plans of action, including South Africa’s Presidential Youth Employment Intervention. In the next decade we will leverage this momentum to achieve a growing economy and a society that works, powered by the potential of young people.
We seek to do this by:
- Creating industry alliances to generate jobs of the future
- Supporting businesses to adopt inclusive hiring methods
- Partnering with business and government to reduce barriers to accessing employment
- Creating new ways of earning in the informal economy, and
- Shifting government spend from input-based activities like training, to outcomes-based results like work experiences and job placement.
- We will do this by designing solutions with youth at the centre and through active leadership coalitions across our societyThe priority is to impact the 3 million engaged youth who will actively seek work over the next 5 years by contributing to the creation of more jobs and income opportunities as well as a transformed work-seeking experience. In this way they continuously build their profile and grow their earning potential – this is what we call “pathway management”. We propose delivering 1 million jobs, work experiences, and income opportunities in the coming five years for this network of 3 million youth. This will lay the building blocks to triple our impact in the following five years.
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