Building Africa’s Productive Workforce
Why, What and How?
We orchestrate skills journeys for Africa’s youth to become work-ready and productive.
Connecting the ecosystem through skills journeys to the technology needs of our economy – combining, education and training with experience.
Why
Up to R600K and up to 18 months ... the average cost and time to productivity of new workforce entrants
Finding new relevant skills and enabling them to become productive can be a mountain to climb. There is a growing need to show a return on the investment to get your workforce to be productive – This is where Wazee steps in.
What
We put experience to work to solve 3 problems:
1. We create predictable and sustainable pipelines of work-ready productive skills
2. We improve returns from skills, impact and compliance spend
3. We build agile teams and transition them into an on-demand productive workforce.
How
By connecting the ECOSYSTEM, our Learn-through-Earn Journeys provide:
– The RIGHT productive skills to Business
– The RIGHT opportunities for Youth
– The RIGHT learning, technology and development from Providers
– The RIGHT finance from Funders, and
– The RIGHT enablers for Equitable Inclusion…
… underpinned by decentralised supply chains leading to improved outputs, increased efficiency, and sustainability
… while creating certainty of spend an outcome.
Journeys
Three predefined journey types, each with their own outcomes;
Work-ready Learn2Earn Journeys
Experience Building Learn+Earn Journeys
Productive Building Earn+Learn Journeys
Tailored to individuals and teams, cost, frequency and duration and specific journey elements
Why Wazee?
We are passionate about the success of Africa’s youth
Experience
Wazee counts thousands of years of experience, and continues to expand rapidly
Global Reach
With members across Africa, Middle East, Europe and North America, the network has reach and is scaling globally
Expertise
We have extensive capabilities and deep experience across the full spectrum of the business-of-IT and its application across industry verticals
Ecosystem
Best-in-class service providers, institutions, vendors, corporations and the youth are excited to join and mature the ecosystem
ECOSYSTEM: YOUTH
Commit to development, learning, and work experience opportunities and become productive contributors to the global economy.
Bridging the gap between development, learning, certified technology training, modern ways of working, work experience, and the business need for a productive and agile workforce; thereby increasing the opportunity for quality work and inclusive equitable growth amongst our youth.
ECOSYSTEM: PROVIDERS
Partner to provide the key ingredients needed to accelerate our youth into a globally competitive productive workforce.
Enabling youth to acquire in-demand skills and work experience, aligned to market needs, by partnering with an ecosystem of accredited development, education, training, technology and talent enablement providers.
ECOSYSTEM: WAZEES
Apply your experience and leverage your network to earn whilst giving back and bridging our youth into productive business value streams.
Powering our youth with experience is at the heart of what we do. Wazee meaning “elders” in Swahili, representing the collective wisdom and capabilities of experienced experts. Wazee provides access to a verified and diversified virtual skills base of experienced professionals with thousands of years of global experience.
ECOSYSTEM: BUSINESS
Collaborate to ensure a predictable pipeline of skilled youth, integrated within a productive agile workforce, producing predictable business value.
By orchestrating skills journeys for Africa’s youth, we connect our youth with Wazees (experienced elders) and best in class providers to build an in-demand agile and productive workforce for sustainable and inclusive growth.