About

Africa’s labour force will be larger than China’s by 2035. It is expected that between 2010 and 2020, Africa will add 163 million people to its potential labour force. (Source: Mo Ibrahim Foundation report, 2012)

According to the Africa Competitiveness Report 2011, the fields of study in higher education undertaken by a majority of African students are not in disciplines such as science, engineering, technology, and business, but often in social sciences and the humanities. The result is a skill mismatch— university graduates remain unemployed, while African countries continue to face shortages of skilled labour.

Koya Capital is a learning transformation consultancy that works synergistically with Governments, Academia, Development, Financing & Technology Partners, Parents and Communities to develop skills for the 21st century world of work.

By focusing on learning modernization, we hope to grow and improve both the quality and relevance of Africa’s human capital to catalyze her economic emergence.

Our Team

  • Our team is composed of technology, finance, education and institutional reform professionals with over 50 years combined experience working in managing transformative change projects in Africa.

OUR APPROACH

  • Our holistic approach is key to our differentiation as we believe it provides an opportunity to solve the problem of enacting sustainable learning reforms at scale and in its entirety.
  • Starting with five countries, Kenya, Rwanda, Nigeria, Ghana and Botswana, our aim is to use agile approaches to learn, test, iterate, validate and scale.
  • We have curated several world class policy provisions focused on the learning ecosystem and we will be testing their applicability in the African Context.
  • Uniquely, all of our projects come with secured commercial and grand funding