Global Education Learning Series: Ignite Talk with Online Discussion on Youth Workforce Development
We were proud to present two ignite talk videos from Educate! and Education Development Center (EDC). For two weeks the presenters of these ignite talks moderated an online discussion through the EducationLinks Discussion Forum LinkedIn group.
Design Approaches to Programs Linking Workforce Participation to Secondary Education: Perspectives from Educate!
In this ignite talk, Boris Bulayev takes the audience through the three approaches that Educate! takes to prepare both in-school and out-of-school youth for the workforce, focusing on the organization’s work in Uganda. Learn how Educate! is implementing successful workforce preparedness programs directly in schools and at the education system level, as well as how monitoring and evaluation has allowed them to successfully scale up and adjust their programming in the face of COVID-19.
Presentation slides with script (PDF)
Associated resources for this ignite talk:
Educate!’s Results Summary Page
Educate!’s Gender Results
Educate!’s 2018 Annual report
Educate! Quasi-Experiment Evaluation Summary – End of School
Educate! Uganda RCT Results Summary – 4 Year Follow-on
IPA Webcast: The Skills We Really Need: The Impacts of The Educate! Experience, a Skills-Based Education Program for Secondary School Students in Uganda
Design Approaches to Programs Linking Workforce Participation to Secondary Education: Perspectives from EDC
This ignite talk introduces EDC’s work on linking workforce participation to secondary education in Rwanda and Senegal, focusing specifically on the contextual challenges and labor market needs in sub-Saharan Africa. Hear how EDC approached these challenges systemically, identifying leverage points at both the national and local levels, and learn the four key considerations for effectively supporting a project aiming at transforming education systems.
Presentation slides with script (PDF)
Associated resources for this ignite talk:
EDC Youth Workforce Development Resources
EDC’s APTE-Senegal Project
EDC’s AK2 Project in Rwanda
EDC’s HDAK Project in Rwanda
The Mastercard Foundation’s Skills at Scale Report (2017)
The Mastercard Foundation’s Preparing Youth for Transitioning to Work Paper (2019)
The Mastercard Foundation Secondary Education in Africa Report (2020)
This event is part of the Global Education Learning Series.
Speaker(s)
Boris Bulayev
Boris Bulayev is the CEO and Co-founder of Educate! Under his leadership, Educate! has grown to 160 staff and over 300 Mentors, reaching over 46,000 students intensively and 470,000 more broadly in 2019 across over 1,000 schools in Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya. The organization has received much acclaim for its work, including the 2018 Klaus J. Jacobs Prize and the 2015 WISE Award, and was highlighted by Bill Gates, the World Bank’s S4YE's Impact Portfolio, Generation Unlimited as one of 20 innovative youth solutions, and The Brookings Institution as one of 14 case studies in their global scaling education learning initiative.
Boris emigrated to the U.S. from Latvia at the age of 7. As a refugee himself, Boris believes in giving other young people access to the same educational opportunities he had that have allowed him to get to where he is today. Before jumping into Educate! full-time, Boris worked at startup incubator Loeb Enterprises. Boris is a recipient of the 2011 Grinnell College Young Innovator for Social Justice Prize, and a two-time Forbes Top 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur. He has been with Educate! since 2004.
Melanie Sany
For more than 20 years, Melanie Sany has designed, managed, and evaluated non-formal and formal education and workforce training programs for youth in developing countries, including Technical and Vocational education and secondary education reforms. Sany is Director of the International Youth and Workforce Development Team at EDC. In this capacity, she oversees the successful implementation of large scale projects that develop the critical skills demanded by the private sector, and works with both public and private actors to affect national systems change. She has previously served as chief of party for the Akazi Kanoze Youth Livelihoods Project in Rwanda and has designed and managed two additional projects that support and expand the work of Akazi Kanoze, including the Akazi Kanoze 2 project and the Early Childhood Care-giver Professional Development and Certification Program. She has also directed and provided technical support in youth livelihoods to the EQUIP3 IDEJEN project in Haiti.
Sany holds an MBA from the Audencia Nantes School of Management and an MA from the University of Marne la Vallee (both in France).