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Ashoka Africa

Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria • 21 Employees
Civic & Social Organization

Over the last three decades, Ashoka has played a key role in developing the field of social entrepreneurship and has selected and supported over 3,300 leading social entrepreneurs who are advancing systemic change across sectors and countries. Together they have contributed to nurturing a growing citizen sector, building bridges to the business and the public sectors, and seeding a global movement of changemakers. Every Ashoka Fellow is part of a larger "mosaic" of solutions that points toward a new paradigm for their field. Being at the center of this network provides Ashoka with a deep understanding of the underlying trends and key levers of social change and helps identify where interventions are most needed in society. Since 1990, the Ashoka network in Africa has yielded some valuable insights about systems-changing solutions to improve social and economic outcomes on the continent. Some recent partnerships have focused on tapping our network to reveal patterns and innovations in nourishment and nutrition in agriculture (Gates Foundation), youth livelihoods and leadership (The MasterCard Foundation), changemaking education (Oxford University Press, Frey Charitable Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation), and the environment and sustainability (Cartier Charitable Foundation). At the core of every innovation is an African who saw a gap and entrepreneured a solution. That's why, in addition to finding and supporting leading social entrepreneurs and identifying patterns in social innovation, Ashoka Africa builds partnerships focused on supporting emerging changemakers and playing a critical role in convening the collaborative ecosystems that will ensure Africa is a place where everyone works together to methodically shift social systems.Ashoka's Africa is composed of four regional offices: Ashoka East Africa, Ashoka West Africa, Ashoka Sahel and Ashoka Southern Africa