Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator

About

Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator is a not-for-profit social enterprise that innovates solutions to address youth employment through partnerships. Harambee works with partners who are committed to results that can work at scale – including government, the private sector, civil society, and over 4 million youth. Harambee works to unlock jobs and break down the barriers that keep millions of young South Africans unemployed. Their vision is of a growing economy and a society that works, powered by the potential of young people. Harambee is an anchor partner in a breakthrough platform called SA Youth which brings together many partners to create a single national network to allow young people to access a wide selection of jobs and skilling opportunities, and for opportunity holders to access young, engaged work-seekers – for free!  

Founding year: 2011

Countries: South Africa, Rwanda

Themes: Jobs and Skills

 

Key Highlights

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Uses innovative technology to unlock and aggregate jobs to make them visible and accessible to youth in South Africa through a platform called SA Youth, which is part of the Presidential Youth Employment Intervention.  

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Provides innovative learning tools and resources for young people to make themselves more employable.

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Partners with youth employment stakeholders to identify opportunities which stimulate job creation in key growth sectors, to design and test solutions that can solve youth unemployment at scale.