Ashoka Africa

Over the last three decades, Ashoka has played a key role in developing the field of social entrepreneurship and has selected and supported over 4,000 leading social entrepreneurs who are advancing systemic change across sectors and countries. Together they have contributed nurturing a growing citizen sector, building bridges to business and the public sector 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 nouri...