Celebrating a Decade of Growth and Success
ziziAfrique is a registered company whose core business is anchored within the education sector and revolves around evidence based interventions, strategic communication and advocacy for community and policy actions. ziziAfrique envisions an Africa in which each child has an equal opportunity to grow, learn, think and thrive. Its mission is to ensure a strong foundation for each child through reading and learning to solve problems, think creatively, and innovate. ziziAfrique focusses on innovative people centered research that yields evidence to support actions for improvements within education. The center piece of ziziAfrique’s work builds on previous efforts, by the company directors that led to the setting up and establishment of the successful and innovative wezo largescale household based study, which has contributed to policy shifts, from overly concentration on learning inputs to outcomes, in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. ZiziAfrique is governed by a board of directors.
At ziziAfrique we are immensely passionate about education. We want all children and youth to access quality education that allows them to create, learn, and grow. We value education and seek to support our clients who are stakeholders in the education sector to consistently provide quality education.
ziziAfrique has undertaken various evaluations of education based projects, a situational analysis survey, curriculum and material development, development of 21 century skilled through mentorship, in addition to strengthening school administration and governance.
The evaluation processes identified education gaps in the learning curriculum while the surveys identified the learners needs, based on the evidence gathered ziziAfrique made recommendations that enhanced the education process. Moreover, ziziAfrique empowered learners through mentorship program and ensured teachers were equipped with leadership skills allowing them to better govern their
institutions. ziziAfrique provides clients with professional service delivery to ensure success in implementing educational interventions.
institutions. ziziAfrique provides clients with professional service delivery to ensure success in implementing educational interventions.
Over the last 10 years of its existence Ziziafrique has hosted four programs and build their capacity to establish and manage institutions with strong organizational structures and culture. The following are the programmes that Ziziafrique has hosted:
- The Peoples Action for Learning (PAL) Network secretariat (www.palnetwork.org). This work revolves around growing the network of countries undertaking citizen led assessments, and supporting new countries who wish to undertaken citizen led assessments to onboard in an effective and efficient manner.
- Future First Kenya (www.futurefirstglobal.org). This work revolves around turning each school into a community through building alumni communities.
Ujana360 is a Program that supports the embedding of whole youth development (WYD) in the Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for increased success in career and life. Ujana360 (Ujana is Kiswahili for Youth-hood) implies all-round or holistic development in which the youth gain access to the core capabilities, skills and values demanded socially and economically functional lives in the modern world. Through targeted social and systemic change, the youth will increase their chances to create, access and retain jobs, as well as lead successful lives and contribute to the common good of our society. The Program is focused on promoting inclusion and improving the lives of over one million youth (aged 18-25 years) facing extreme adversity by strengthening the TVET curriculum to include core values and capabilities linked to enhanced resilience, employability and work productivity. The project is currently managed by Zizi Afrique Foundation.
Current research
2025 – 2026. Ziziafrique is partnering with New York University to undertake implementation research on Tech-Enabled Secondary Supplemental Education for Refugee Students. This is a World Bank funded research through the Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund (SIEF). The study will be undertaken in Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps.
In 2024/2025, Ziziafrique was commissioned by the British Council to undertake a scoping study on the role of language in education access, learning outcomes, resilience, and social cohesion among refugee communities in Kenya. The main purpose of the survey was to gain an in-depth understanding of the language education needs, challenges and opportunities for refugees and host communities in Kenya. In order to achieve this research goal, Ziziafrique sought to realize the following key objectives:
- To understand the role played by language in social cohesion and resilience building in different educational settings in Kenya.
- To understand the impact of language on learning outcomes for refugees and host communities.
- To understand the landscape of active projects and partners supporting the education sector.
The report has since been validated and presented at the UNESCO 25th anniversary celebration of the International Mother Language Day in Paris on 20th and 21st February 2025.
Jackfruit contracted Ziziafrique from October 2024 to December 2025 to undertake a quantitative observational study on the USAID CATALYZE EduFinance Kenya Activity. In order to achieve this research goal, Ziziafrique proposed to realize the following key objectives:
- To measure the learning outcomes of Grade Two children in selected private schools in informal settlements using the Early Grade Reading Assessment tools adapted from the government led Tusome Early Literacy Programme.
- To assess the capacity of teachers to deliver a lesson using the Competency Based Curriculum Approach
- To understand the role of Head Teachers in supporting delivery of the curriculum by teachers.