What is Africa Street MBA?

Africa Street MBA (AfSMBA) is an innovative entrepreneurial platform aimed at providing comprehensive support to startups and small businesses in Africa. AfSMBA is an initiative being implemented by DONE BY US in Africa starting with Ghana with support from the KGL Foundation.

Recognising the significant unemployment rate among Africa's youth and the lack of proper business knowledge, AfSMBA seeks to address these challenges by offering capacity building initiatives such as training, coaching, mentorship, business development services, and funding opportunities. The project targets marginalised groups, including persons with disabilities (PWDs), women, and young people from economically disadvantaged backgrounds as well as those with low education, with a focus on the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) sector.

Bridging the business knowledge gap

Africa Street MBA has been designed to bridge the business knowledge gap and help young people from poor backgrounds, and young people with low education to also have the opportunity to build a world-class enterprise. Beneficiaries of Africa Street MBA will be impacted with world-class business knowledge based on top MBA curriculum and entrepreneurial course content.

Making the youth competitive in the job market

Our 'Building the Employability Skills of Youth in Ghana' (BESYG) Project is designed to empower the youth preferably women and persons with disabilities with the tools, knowledge, and skills to drastically improve their employability skills making them competitive for the global job market.
Specifically, the BESYG project will build a set of transferable skills and key personal attributes - of beneficiaries - which are highly valued by employers and essential for effective performance in the workplace.

Impacting Lives Positively

The 100 Project is our ambitious plan to positively impact the lives of 100,000 youth through entrepreneurship and making them competitive in the job market. Beneficiaries are youth in the underserved communities, thus those. from poor backgrounds and with low education thereby fulfilling our mantra of empowering youth into global giants.

Africa Street MBA seeks to achieve the following specific objectives:

To build capacity and increase the knowledge of the youth in Africa through in-person and virtual educational/training sessions as well as distribution of educational materials on entrepreneurship, innovation and strategy.
To undertake coaching, mentorship, capacity building sessions, and small grants through an Accelerator Programme for youth across Africa. We also seek to make a Start-up Handbook available to the youth in Africa in soft copies, hardcopies and Braille formats as well as provide easy-to-use workbooks and handbooks to entreprenuers to utilise.
To empower the youth preferably women and persons with disabilities with the tools, knowledge, and skills to drastically improve their employability skills making them competitive for the global job market.

Africa Street MBA Core Pillars:

Our network of practitioners will provide you with the strategic guidance to make the right technology, business and commercial decisions, and our program managers will help you develop and implement the best operational framework and processes for your company.
  • Training, Coaching, Mentorship, and Events
  • Start-up Accelerator Programme
  • Start-up Community & School Clubs

Training, Coaching, Mentorship & Events

These include teaching, coaching and mentorship to develop the skills and knowledge required by entrepreneurs to achieve their full competencies. The aim is to improve the capability, capacity, productivity and performance of young entrepreneurs through a series of activities and events such as masterclasses, workshops, seminars, fireside chats, etc.

Start-up Accelerator Programme

This is a fixed-term 12 weeks (maximum) or 4 weeks (minimum), cohort-based programme that works with entrepreneurs to make them investment ready. The educational components of the programme is based on the top MBA curriculum and ends with a public pitch event and/or demo day. Participants immensely benefit from capacity building sessions, mentoring, networking, grants and the recognition of being chosen to be a part of the accelerator.

Start-up Community & School Clubs

The Africa Street MBA is a community made up of people with commonalities in the area of entrepreneurship, innovation, career and national development through enterprise. Our community is also made up of high-school and university clubs where we have both virtual & in-person engagements.

Benefits of Africa Street MBA:

World-class Education

Access to world-class business training and education based on top global MBA curriculum

Seed Funding

Seed funding (grant) for beneficiaries through a competitive mechanism and access to potential investments for accelerated businesses

Business Development Support

Access to insightful and influential mentors, coaches and management consultants all year round

Africa Street MBA Community

Members of the Africa Street MBA Community gain access to mentors, coaches, like-minded peers to network and share ideas

OUR PROJECTS

Entrepreneurship Training

The Africa Street MBA (AfSMBA) undertakes year-round entrepreneurship trainings dubbed Entrepreneurship Essentials Master Class in underserved communities. These trainings are designed to be delivered in English and local languages and is intended to bridge the business knowledge gap among the youth. The approach to delivering the trainings is via the Citizen Volunteerism method where our team engages and utilises selected volunteers across all implementing communities. The AfSMBA team organises frequent training of trainers for the volunteers and supply them with continuous educational materials and logistics to aid with the delivering of the training.

Accelerator Programme

The Africa Street MBA (AfSMBA) Accelerator programme is designed to empower the youth to be investment ready. The Accelerator comprises of over 20 business topics delivered by expert management consultants across the world. Beneficiaries go through a comprehensive and intensive 4 weeks or 12 weeks period and they work with mentors and coaches to make them ready. The Accelerator is organised once per year after an extensive regional training exercise by the AfSMBA team. The programme is climaxed with a Pitching and Demonstration Day where selected entrepreneurs pitch their businesses and demonstrate their products or services. To learn more about the requirements please Click Here.

Building Employability Skills of Youth in Ghana (BESYG)

The ‘Building the Employability Skills of Youth in Ghana’ (BESYG) Project is designed to empower the youth preferably women and persons with disabilities with the tools, knowledge, and skills to drastically improve their employability skills making them competitive for the global job market. Specifically, the BESYG project will build a set of transferable skills and key personal attributes – of beneficiaries – which are highly valued by employers and essential for effective performance in the workplace. To read more about the BESYG Programme in 2024, kindly Click Here.

Start-up Community & School Clubs

The Africa Street MBA is a community made up of people with commonalities in the area of entrepreneurship, innovation, career and national development through enterprise. Our community is also made up of high-school and university clubs where we have both virtual & in-person engagements.

Empowering 100,000 Youth by 2026 Through Entrepreneurship & Making Them Competitive in the Job Market

The 100 Project is our ambitious plan to positively impact the lives of 100,000 youth through entrepreneurship and making them competitive in the job market. Beneficiaries are youth in the underserved communities, thus those. from poor backgrounds and with low education thereby fulfilling our mantra of empowering youth into global giants. We go to where no one wants to go – inaccessible communities -, and we empower the youth in these communities in their own languages. Click here to DONATE to the project.