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EdSource Africa Ltd is a multidisciplinary ecosystem builder, capacity development partner, and strategic convening agency driving innovation, skills development, partnerships, and sustainable impact across Africa. EdSource works at the intersection of education, TVET, youth empowerment, gender inclusion, sustainability, climate resilience, dryland agriculture, entrepreneurship, policy dialogue, and private sector engagement to create platforms, programs, and partnerships that shape the future of work and development. The organization designs and delivers high-impact conferences, exhibitions, leadership forums, learning experiences, training programs, stakeholder dialogues, and partnership ecosystems that connect government, industry, academia, development partners, investors, innovators, and communities. Through its convening power, strategic communications expertise, and growing role in workforce development and professional training, EdSource enables collaboration, thought leadership, capacity building, and actionable outcomes across diverse sectors. EdSource also works closely with training institutions, industry players, certification bodies, and ecosystem partners to support workforce readiness, professional development, entrepreneurship, Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL), digital and future skills, and industry-responsive training initiatives. Through partnerships and collaborative programs, the organization contributes to strengthening skills ecosystems and improving employability, productivity, and enterprise growth. A growing area of focus for EdSource is dryland agriculture and resilient food systems, where the organization plays a strategic ecosystem coordination role — bringing together stakeholders to strengthen climate resilience, unlock investment opportunities, support innovation, and advance sustainable livelihoods in arid and semi-arid regions. Through conferences, policy dialogue, partnerships, capacity building, investment conversations, and knowledge platforms, EdSource is helping shape practical, scalable, and investable solutions for Africa’s dryland economies. |
EdSource’s work spans strategic communications, ecosystem development, program design, training and capacity building, event management, advocacy, stakeholder engagement, research-informed dialogue, and innovation-driven initiatives. The company has become a trusted partner in advancing conversations and solutions around education transformation, skills development, women and youth empowerment, sustainability, entrepreneurship, and emerging workforce needs. Ecosystem Building & Strategic Partnerships ● Capacity Building & Workforce Development Programs EdSource Africa is committed to building inclusive ecosystems, strengthening skills and institutional capacity, fostering collaboration, and creating platforms that unlock opportunity, innovation, resilience, and sustainable impact across the continent. |
EduTech
Kenya is considered technologically advanced in the region with inventions such as the country’s flagship, the money transfer innovation MPESA. Having a structured digital transformation strategy for education is necessary to make it possible to mainstream such innovations.
At this point, the country has not been able to do this and this was clear when the COVID 19 pandemic exposed challenges in digital learning which demonstrated the lack of preparedness to deal with such a crisis. This led to loss in learning time because physical learning was not possible following total lockdown and closure of education institutions.
During this period, up to 80% of students stayed home as learning was disrupted in almost all institutions. Lack of a digital learning program and policy contributed to the disruption. The challenge here included issues such as lack of digital content, devices, inadequate internet connectivity, inadequate infrastructure, teacher up-skilling and in some areas even access to electricity was a hindrance. In as much as international schools and some private schools were able to adapt quickly and pick up e learning to avoid complete loss of learning exposed the inequalities in our education system where some private schools and all public schools were not able to offer the same.
What this means is that there is need for sustained efforts to engage in advocating for an e learning policy therefore giving an opportunity for Education technology start-ups, corporates and the government to address the gaps and leverage on existing solutions in the industry to create a structured e learning framework. Education technology start- ups for instance were instrumental in providing content, devices and apps at affordable prices to schools and parents to keep students engaged during the school closures.
The EDsource Platform provides opportunities to showcase and discuss digital trends and how ICT product and service providers are meeting learning and teaching needs.
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