From a single pioneering vision that started in 2001, Ashoka East Africa has grown into the region's foremost network of social entrepreneurs identifying, electing, and supporting visionary changemakers across the region.
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Born in East Africa, Built for Africa
Founded in 2001, Ashoka East Africa is the youngest of Ashoka's Africa offices. We serve the East African region of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda, identifying and supporting the most innovative social entrepreneurs working to create lasting systemic change.
For 25 years, we have built one of the continent's most vibrant citizen-sector ecosystems: electing over 100 Ashoka Fellows, running the Visionary Program for cross-sector leaders, launching youth changemaker initiatives, and convening diverse stakeholders around East Africa's most pressing social challenges.
The most powerful force for good in the world is a social entrepreneur, a person driven by an innovative idea that can help correct an entrenched global problem
Bill Drayton
Founder & CEO, Ashoka
Programs Built for Systemic Change
From supporting East Africa’s most innovative social entrepreneurs to equipping the next generation. Our programs are designed to ensure everyone has the confidence and capacity to be a changemaker.
Ashoka establishes its East Africa office, the youngest on the African continent, with a mission to identify and support leading social entrepreneurs across the region.
Regional Expansion Begins
Ashoka East Africa broadens its reach across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda, building a multi-country network of social innovators working on interconnected challenges
Health Innovation Partnership
Ashoka partners with Boehringer Ingelheim to promote innovative healthcare solutions across the region, supporting social entrepreneurs tackling health access challenges in East Africa.
Youth Years Program Launch
Ashoka East Africa launches its Youth Years program to equip young people with changemaker skills, empathy, collaborative leadership, and social innovation. Identifying Young Changemakers across the region.
Visionary Program Partnership Formalised
A formal partnership between Ashoka Austria, ADA and CARE brings the Visionary Program to East Africa. A leadership program designed to equip executives from business, public, and non-profit sectors with changemaking skills.
Visionary Programme Kicks Off in East Africa
The first cohort of the Ashoka East Africa Visionary program launches in December 2020 with participants drawn from private and public sectors, NGOs, foundations and leading social entrepreneurs across the region.
DREEM Program-Renewable Energy for Farmers
With support from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Ashoka East Africa launches the DREEM program. Advancing distributed renewable energy solutions for smallholder farmers across agriculture value chains.
100th Fellow Milestone Reached
Ashoka East Africa celebrates a landmark achievement inducting its 100th Ashoka Fellow, marking two and a half decades of identifying and investing in the region's most transformative social entrepreneurs.
Ashoka Fellows in East Africa
Over 100 Ashoka Fellows have been elected across East Africa. Social entrepreneurs reshaping health, education, agriculture, environment and rights.
Donating to Ashoka enables us to elect new social entrepreneurs into our fellowship, provide support services to existing Ashoka Fellows, and launch collaborations between Fellows, corporations, and citizen sector organisations to promote continued innovation in areas of pressing global need.
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