Entrepreneurship Education and Training: Insights from Ghana, Kenya, and Mozambique

A WORLD BANK STUDY

Entrepreneurship Education and Training

Insights from Ghana, Kenya, and Mozambique

Alicia Robb, Alexandria Valerio, and Brent Parton, Editors

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Acknowledgments

This report was prepared by a team led by Alexandria Valerio (World Bank) and composed of Alicia Robb (Kauffman Foundation and University of California, Berkeley) and Brent Parton (World Bank). Sebastian Monroy-Taborda (World Bank) provided overall research support. The report summarizes the findings from country case studies undertaken in three countries in Sub-Saharan Africa: Ghana, Kenya, and Mozambique. Fieldwork activities were coordinated by World Bank task team leaders including Peter Darvas (Ghana), Helen Craig (Kenya), and Ana Ruth Menezes (Mozambique). The research teams responsible for preparing the case studies included Akua Ofori-Ampofo, Wilberforce Owusu-Ansah (KNUST), and Kofi Poku in Ghana; Jutta Franz, Wairimu Kiambuthi, and David Muthaka (Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis) in Kenya; and Constantino Marrengula, Zeferino Martins, and Manolo Sanchez in Mozambique.

Helpful peer review and general comments were provided on an early version of the case studies by the following World Bank colleagues: Louise Fox, Margo Hoftijzer, Mattias Lundberg, Maria Paulina Mogollon, and Michel Welmond. The team expresses appreciation to all individuals who participated in one-on-one interviews or focus groups in the cities of Malindi, Mombasa, and Nairobi in Kenya; Accra and Kumasi in Ghana; and Manica, Maputo, and Nampula in Mozambique; and Michael Freese (Professor, National University of Singapore) and Bob Nelson (Professor Emeritus, College of Education, University of Illinois), who generously shared their time and technical expertise with the team.

The team is also thankful for the overall assistance received from Elise Egoume-Bossogo, Lorelei Lacdao, and Marie Madeleine Ndaw. The written pieces of this study were edited by Marc DeFrancis (DeFrancis Writing & Editing).

Finally, the team appreciates the leadership and technical support of Elizabeth King (Sector Director, Human Development Network) and Harry Patrinos (Sector Manager, Human Development Network) of the World Bank.

The report received financial support from the Bank-Netherlands Partnership Program with the World Bank.

About the Editors

Alicia Robb is a senior fellow with the Kauffman Foundation. She is also a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley; the Basque Institute for Competitiveness in San Sebastian, Spain; and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. She is the founder and past executive director and board chair of the Foundation for Sustainable Development, an international development organization working in Africa, India, and Latin America (www.fsdinternational.org). Alicia received her MS and PhD in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has previously worked with the Office of Economic Research in the Small Business Administration and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. She is also a prolific author on the topic of entrepreneurship. In addition to authoring numerous journal articles and book chapters, she is the coauthor of Race and Entrepreneurial Success, published by MIT Press, and A Rising Tide: Financing Strategies for Women-Owned Businesses, published by Stanford University Press. She serves on the board of the National Advisory Council for Minority Business Enterprise and on the advisory board for Global Entrepreneurship Week, and she is a guest contributor to outlets such as The Huffington Post and Forbes.

Alexandria Valerio is a senior economist in the Education Department at the World Bank. Alexandria currently leads global research agendas focused on identifying the characteristics of effective entrepreneurship education and training programs and implementing large-scale surveys to measure skills sets of adults and their impact on a range of outcomes. Before joining the Education Department, she led the policy dialogue and project portfolios in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Nicaragua, Panama, and Paraguay in the Latin America and the Caribbean region; and Angola and Mozambique in the Africa region. Her published work includes peer-reviewed papers on the cost and financing of early childhood development, impacts of school fees, technical vocational education and training, workforce development, and school-based health programs. She holds a PhD in comparative and international education from Columbia University and a master’s in public administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

Brent Parton is an education consultant for the World Bank.