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YOTA’s consulting services leverage the organisation’s extensive experience, relationships, and approaches to help clients generate sustainable economic and social value through their core businesses, corporate social responsibility, or philanthropic efforts.
Our approach combines business analytics with experiential learning and advanced approaches to participatory, human-centered design. We support clients from strategy formation to field implementation and have proven methodologies both for enhancing internal alignment and building effective partnerships.
Progress through partnership
At YOTA, we are driven by the desire to make a positive impact on the lives of Africa’s youth. We do this by working with clients to improve their policies and programme frameworks, to up-skill their workforce, and drive growth.
Our long history working in the youth sector means that we’ve built strong relationships with a wide range of actors, including governments, donors, private firms, training providers, youth-led organisations, and networks, among others.
- We support clients to
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- Design and test innovative and sustainable business models
- Align core business operations with social impact
- Maximize the business and social value of corporate social responsibility initiatives and corporate philanthropy
- Build deeper relationships with communities, customers, employees, and other stakeholders
- Enhance internal skills, morale, and sense of purpose
- Leverage external skills, knowledge, and resources, including access to financing where possible
We draw from YOTA’s two-decade on-the-ground experience delivering results in delivering employment skills, fostering entrepreneurship, connecting talent to markets, facilitating access to youth-inclusive financial services, engendering youth leadership, convening youth action, and advocating for more youth-inclusive public policies. This extensive experience equips us with a deep reservoir of knowledge and expertise to serve clients.
Our access to social, business, government, community, and other leaders in multiple jurisdictions enables clients to harness local knowledge with nuanced perspectives in order to build creative answers to complex questions. YOTA is widely seen as a credible broker with extraordinary convening capabilities and the capacity to build trust across sectors.
As a fully non-profit organisation, all income generated by YOTA through consulting services are invested into the organisation’s programmes.
- Youth organising and participant mobilisation
- Multi-stakeholder networks and community building
- Youth-inclusive policy reform and development
- Advocacy and policy influencing
- Youth-led research
- Evaluation and Assessments
- Capability building
- Curriculum development
- Tailored learning programme design and implementation
- On-job learning and assessment
- Apprenticeships and internships
- Youth transition, employability programmes and career pathways
- Workforce planning
- Industry engagement
- Programme design and implementation
- Quality assurance
At YOTA, we offer comprehensive program evaluation services that help organizations measure the effectiveness, impact, and sustainability of their initiatives. Our evaluation methodologies are designed to provide actionable insights that inform strategic decision-making and enhance program outcomes. YOTA utilizes a blend of quantitative and qualitative approaches to deliver tailored evaluations across various sectors, including education and youth, health, agriculture, mining, etc.
We specialize in:
- Impact evaluation
- Process evaluation
- Program evaluation
- Cost-benefit analysis
- Formative evaluation
- Participatory evaluation
Our team of experts led by Dr. James Natia Adam combines rigorous research with real-world insights, utilizing advanced analytics and human-centered design to ensure that our evaluations not only assess current performance but also identify opportunities for growth and improvement. From formative assessments to comprehensive impact studies, YOTA ensures that our clients have the data and insights they need to achieve lasting success.
