2022 was a year of great strides for us at The Education Collaborative. We worked towards achieving the goals in Phase I of our 10-year strategy, which also focused on graduate employability, entrepreneurship, and ethical leadership development. Through our initiatives, convenings, and regional hub engagements this year, we reached an additional 33,000 students, bringing the number of students we have impacted since 2017 to 149,000. Read the 2022 Outcomes Report

We were able to realize this through the interest, commitment, and dedication of our institutions in the network, as well as through the efforts of The Education Collaborative administrative team. The team has significantly grown this year to increase the network’s capacity to transform higher education in Africa. In this report, we share our progress and highlight our outcomes, made possible by The Education Collaborative’s leadership, consulting committee, network members, and other stakeholders.

From hosting 200+ participants at our first hybrid Annual Convening in Accra, to deepening engagements with institutions in Francophone Africa through a regional meeting in Niamey, we are building a network that will shape this continent’s higher education systems and its economic and social future. Through our work this year, we have supported four higher education institutions to strengthen their career development systems while reaching 1800 students and 36 faculty.

We also facilitated an ethical action capacity-building workshop for over 200 teacher trainees and published a matrix for evaluating entrepreneurial ecosystems in higher education institutions. We look to the future with excitement as we see the impact of our work steadily bringing the building blocks institutions need to transform African higher education.

African tertiary institutions play a crucial part in leading the African renaissance and through your continued collaboration, leadership, and support, the years ahead hold more remarkable growth and impact in achieving The Education Collaborative’s bold vision to improve educational outcomes for over 1.1 million students by 2030