Challenge: Gender Links aimed to strengthen its organizational planning and improve its positioning as a leading provider of Gender Integration (GI) services across Africa. To do this effectively, the organization needed a clear picture of its internal capabilities and a structured approach to competitive strategy.
Challenge: Social change leaders in Africa often face burnout and disconnection, with few spaces dedicated to inner wellbeing as a foundation for collective action and sustained impact. Solution: Axum partnered with The Wellbeing Project to host the Hearth Summit in Nairobi.
Challenge: Government entities across Africa often operate with limited capacity, constrained systems, and fragmented access to strategic support needed to scale programs and drive long-term development outcomes. Solution: The African Government Collaborative (AGC) was established to address these gaps.
Challenge: Africa is the only continent where 70% of the population is under 30. By 2035, over 400 million young people will reach working age. Yet 86% of children in Sub-Saharan Africa lack access to quality education. Promising education innovations often start as isolated pilots and never reach the scale needed to transform systems.
Challenge: One of our partners developed an initiative to improve access to safe, affordable surgical care in low and middle-income countries. The initiative needed a skilled implementation team to support its three pillars: Leadership Development, Innovation, and Elevating the Surgical Workforce.
Challenge: According to the World Health Organization, only 20% of Africans were fully vaccinated against COVID-19 during the pandemic due to inequitable access to infrastructure and vaccine hesitancy. One of our partners created a vaccination network to bring together governments, health systems, and communities at scale.
Challenge: Established in late 2019, a global disease prevention organization formed a partnership and resource mobilization arm. As a newly formed organization with a critical mandate, it faced the pressing challenge of establishing a dedicated secretariat with a skilled and experienced team.
Challenge: One of our partners' goals was to spur Africa's transition to a circular economy. However, there existed an opportunity to support the organization in building its capacity to profile, develop, and coordinate the implementation of circular economy opportunities.
Challenge: Historically, international media has marginalized voices from the global south, leading to biased perspectives and limited representation. Yet, empowering underrepresented communities in the film industry presents an opportunity to promote diversity and inclusion in storytelling.
The Tanzania agriculture sector faced key ecosystem bottlenecks in coordination, delivery capacity, and market access that constrained its growth potential.
Youth in Africa face significant skills gaps and limited access to economic opportunities. Axum designed a coordinated skilling intervention to change this at scale.
Historically, international media has marginalized voices from the global south, leading to biased perspectives and limited representation.
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