by Jana Porter | Mar 24, 2021 | Featured, Harambee in the News
Whatever you make of the latest data, it’s clear that things are still very tough for our economy. The unemployment numbers show it: nearly two-thirds (63.2%) of young people are not in any form of education, training or work. The answer seems to be big economic...
by Jana Porter | Mar 11, 2021 | Featured, Harambee in the News
The South African global business services (GBS) sector, also known as business process outsourcing (BPO), is targeting 100 000 new jobs by 2023 and 500 000 by 2030. This, as the sector managed to be one of the few industries that created job opportunities amid the...
by Jana Porter | Mar 11, 2021 | Knowledge & Research
Tapping into sources of foreign demand has been critical to the economic success stories of developing countries worldwide over the past fifty years. This practice of linking the domestic labour force to sources of global demand, which are many times larger than the...
by Jana Porter | Mar 5, 2021 | Featured, Harambee in the News
Stop asking us to follow in the footsteps of private sector unicorns. For us, impact at scale looks very different, write two non-profit CEOs. Funders and stakeholders constantly exhort non-profit leaders like us to “10X or 100X” our programs to serve more people....
by Jana Porter | Mar 5, 2021 | Featured, Harambee in the News
In late February, Stats SA released its Quarterly Labour Force Survey which reported the highest official unemployment rate since the survey began in 2008, at 32%. “What is more problematic [than 32% unemployment] is that youth unemployment is double that: 15-...
