Building A Thriving Innovation Economy
We will focus on developing a network of investors, corporates, development agencies, media and academia interested in Pan African impact. We want to form a coalition of the willing who will work with us over the next 10 years, leveraging our individual and collective strength to build launching pads, safety nets and long term support and partnership for our members and the communities they serve. This coalition will also keep us honest in our plan to support innovation communities. We will grow our portfolio of signature AfriLabs programs Through our programs, we will ensure that we provide much needed knowledge and skill building and transfer, and access to funds within the network. We have begun piloting programs like our AfriLabs Capacity Building program, which develops and delivers a critical innovation curriculum to our hubs and Catalytic Africa which aims to strengthen African startups, African hubs and angel investors while delivering impact results to institutional funders. We look forward to scaling these programs and building more programs geared towards ensuring our members are always able to support the growing needs of their communities. We will co-create sustainable impact programmes with partners. We will co-create programs with partners which will offer long and short term learning, working and funding opportunities for our community. We have begun implementing some of these programs, for example the African Union Tech Fellowship Programme with GIZ and the African Union which identifies and deploys highly competent Africa based tech innovators within the African Union headquarters and organs to identify challenges within the systems and propose sustainable solutions. We are also working with Mozilla to introduce Lean Data Practice methods to our community to support how they collect, use, and secure data all while engaging their data subjects.
Strategic Pillar 2: Policy and Practice Advocacy
Generate innovation policy evidence with the AfriLabs community for their use and for the use of the rest of the innovation ecosystem.
Over the years, AfriLabs has participated in and led policy conversations convened across Africa. We have also been and continue to be part of various policy networks. Having worked across the Africa innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem for 10 years, and seen first hand the impact of policies on the community we support, we are now well placed to take a leadership role in ensuring that policies designed for innovators and entrepreneurs work for them.
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