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On 13th April 2026, at the Ashoka East Africa offices in Nairobi, representatives of the East Africa Philanthropy Network (EAPN) and Ashoka East Africa put their signatures to a Memorandum of Understanding and, in doing so committed to a shared vision for what East Africa's social sector can become...

On 27 March 2026, we marked an important moment for our organisation. At our Nairobi office on Ngong Road, outgoing board members formally handed over to a new board of directors in a ceremony that honoured both the foundations we have built and the future we are determined to create. The handover...

This episode brought together Ashoka Fellow B. S. Nagesh, a pioneering social entrepreneur in India’s retail sector and the founder of TRRAIN, a social initiative focused on skilling and employment pathways, and Sridhar Sajja, an IKEA co-worker whose collaboration with Nagesh became a powerful...

On 8th March, the world will mark and celebrate, as it does annually, International Women’s Day (IWD). A celebration of women’s resilience, leadership, and transformative power in society, which has always been the bedrock of progress. IWD is a global affirmation of women's dignity, rights, and...

Today, we showcase Elena Dragulea and Stefania Mastroeni, IKEA co-workers in Italy, who supported social enterprise InVento Innovation Lab. Founded by Giulia Detomati, InVento Lab was one of eleven enterprises in the fifth cohort of the Dela programme, a systems change accelerator co-created by...

Inside the report, you’ll find: ✅ 10 key findings on how cross-sector collaboration and genuine youth leadership can transform communities ✅ Concrete recommendations for building trust and overcoming fragmentation ✅ Practical tools to help you start or scale projects with systemic impact If you...

Supernova. It begins as something almost invisible, pressure building silently and energy gathering to a point until there’s a single moment that changes everything. Dr Rana Dajani (Ashoka Fellow, Jordan) uses that image to describe what happens when an idea uses people as catalysts rather than...

An intrapreneur’s guide for shaping the future of business, and an invitation to join the movement.

In many schools, sexual harassment is treated like an uncomfortable status quo, a topic mentioned with haste and then set aside, or something that “doesn’t happen here.” Silence can feel like the safest choice for institutions. For students, it often means the opposite This collaboration began with...

Sometimes it shows up as a sudden flash of anger from a teenager who cannot explain their emotions. Sometimes it looks like a parent going silent, then feeling guilty about it. Sometimes it looks like grief that has lasted so long that it starts to feel like an organ, indistinguishable from the body...

Resilience, creativity, and initiative are skills that are innate in migration journeys. Kenney Clewett weighs in on how can we organize ourselves as a society so that everyone — including those who arrive with so much to contribute — can participate fully in building a society where we are all...

At Lagos State Model College, Kankon, a junior secondary school in Lagos State, leadership used to be something students observed rather than experienced. That began to change through the Changemaker Teacher EACH Activation Program (CTEACH), a Time for Change (TFC) initiative that supports teachers...

This session, “Voices of Belonging,” brought together Hugo Menino, Ashoka Fellow and co-founder of SPEAK, and Magnus Stahl, Product Engineering Manager at IKEA Sweden. The conversation explored what it really takes to collaborate across contexts and how belonging is built when relationships come...

Meet our newest Ashoka Fellows: Mohannad Hesham — Building Long-Term Water Resilience Founder, Life from Water Mohannad Hesham is pioneering a systems-level approach to clean water access and sustainability in local communities. Through Life from Water, he works with more than 80 local communities...

On a February afternoon in the Medina of Tunis, a room full of strangers took turns packing damp earth into a small frame, ramming it down layer by layer. Teenagers, architecture students and professors all got muddy for a shared notion of “heritage” and how it manifests as a living skill. That...

January 11, 2023 - Ashoka, a global network of over 4,000 social entrepreneurs, and The UPS Foundation, the philanthropic arm of global logistics leader UPS, today announced a partnership to create greater equity and economic development across the African continent. The partnership will empower...

More often than not, it’s the case that social entrepreneurs spend a lot of time engaged in discussions surrounding “sustainability.” But in practice, sustainability is more than just a buzzword; it’s the consistent effort of keeping impact alive when grants end, crises hit, and the world changes...

By co-creating the Dela systems change programme to find, strengthen, and scale innovative solutions, IKEA and Ashoka work with and support experts from both fields that contribute to equality, inclusion, and decent livelihoods around the world.

Ashoka Fellow Giulia Detomati, founder and CEO of InVento Lab and participant in the Dela programme, launches Breaking the Cycle together with her team, an experiential game that brings gender equity into organizations.

The Nobel Peace Prize this year went to an Ashoka Fellow. She is the fifth Ashoka Fellow to be honored with the Prize in 20 years. This is extraordinary. Ashoka helps launch the world’s leading social entrepreneurs. Three-quarters of these Ashoka Fellows have changed national and/or international...