Anzisha Stories
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Fostering Productive Entrepreneurial Communities: From the Very Young Entrepreneur Lens
What support interventions works best to scale job-generative enterprises? This is a perennial question that few have attempted to solve conclusively- which is understandable because there is no easy way…
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2017/18 Report
Now in it’s 19th year, the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor tracks rates of entrepreneurship across multiple phases of entrepreneurial activity. The region with the highest proportion of entrepreneurs expecting medium to…
Parents: The Forgotten Players in the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem
The Entrepreneurship”Ecosystem” is defined as the individuals, organizations, or institutions that are outside the individual entrepreneur, that are either conducive or prohibitive to their entrepreneurial activities. The players often referred…
Young African Entrepreneurs and the Next 6000 Days.
Africa will need to massively and rapidly scale up its investment in entrepreneurial youth if it is to have a chance to seize the demographic opportunity – time is running…
5 Critical Lessons for Supporting Youth Entrepreneurs and Leaders Through Movements
The Graca Machel Trust hosted a gathering of youth support organizations from across Africa exploring how to build impactful support structures for youth. In our view, parents, educators and passionate…
Youth Towards Growth Sectors: Where opportunities for youth lie across Africa
What sectors of business create the most opportunities for youth to engage in? This is an important but tricky question to explore as an individual who may want to better…
Defining our true north- Anzisha convenes a community of entrepreneurship educators and supporters
Welcome to the Anzisha Effect – the newest knowledge hub for entrepreneurship educators and supporters in Africa! The work of moving African development forward is tough. Hard things are always…
African Leadership Academy’s Big Plan for Very Young Entrepreneurs
In this Video, ALA’s VP of Global Programs, Josh Adler, shares ALA’s vision for developing young African entrepreneurs at the ALA Decennial Celebrations. Josh Adler (Vice President, Global Programs, ALA)…
Anzisha Youth Entrepreneurship Survey 2016
Africa has the youngest population in the world, with an estimated 200 million people between the ages of 15 and 24. But despite fast economic growth over the past decade,…
Identifying the right users before scaling
Lessons from Alain Nteff, African healthtech entrepreneur Gifted Mom: Tackling maternal and child mortality through mobile technology Each year in Africa, a quarter of a million women die of pregnancy related…
Supporting Young Entrepreneurs: What Works? Youth Business International
Commissioned by Youth Business International & EY, this report highlights 10 key lessons in what works in supporting young entrepreneurs. It highlights imperatives such as financing, training, mentoring, gender equity…
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