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CESA 2016-2025 audit Africa education targets 2026

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The CESA 2016-2025 Audit: 75 Million More Children in School, 100 Million Still Left Out

UphivaBETAR
April 4, 2026

The African Union’s Continental Education Strategy for Africa has closed. A data-driven audit finds an access paradox, a widening STEM gap, and structural blockers that the successor framework has not yet resolved.

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Girls in STEM Africa CESA gender gap 2026 — three countries doing it differently

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Girls in STEM: Why a Decade of African Targets Failed — and What Three Countries Are Doing Differently

UphivaBETAR
April 3, 2026

The AU’s CESA 2016–2025 decade closed without meeting its STEM gender parity goals. In Nigeria, women account for just 22 per cent of STEM graduates. Rwanda, Ghana, and South Africa offer three distinct policy models that are producing measurable progress — but nobody is scaling them fast enough.

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Girls STEM Africa gender gap education 2026

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Girls in STEM: Why a Decade of African Targets Failed — and What Three Countries Are Doing Differently

UphivaBETAR
March 29, 2026

A decade of African targets on girls in STEM produced minimal change. BETAR examines why the interventions failed and what Rwanda, Ethiopia, and Côte d’Ivoire are doing that is actually working.

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Africa Deep Tech Research Foundation Gap 2026

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Africa’s Deep Tech Boom Is Built on a Fragile Research Foundation

UphivaBETAR
March 20, 2026

UNECA projects 4.3% African growth driven by frontier technologies. But Africa’s researcher pipeline — PhDs per capita, R&D spending, institutional capacity — is nowhere near ready to sustain that ambition.

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CESA 2016-2025 education audit — Africa's access paradox: 75M more enrolled, 100M still out of school

Education

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The CESA 2016-2025 Audit: 75 Million More Children in School, 100 Million Still Left Out

UphivaBETAR
March 13, 2026

The African Union’s ten-year Continental Education Strategy has closed. The continent enrolled more children than ever while falling further behind on access and STEM output — and adopted a successor framework without resolving the structural blockers that defeated the last one.

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African STEM students scholarship programme

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The Scholarship Pipeline: How STEM Programs Are Reshaping African Talent

UphivaBETAR
March 9, 2026

From Google fellowships to Japanese government grants, Africa’s STEM scholarship landscape has never been richer — or more contested. A new generation of funding is reshaping who gets to study,…

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The CESA 2016-2025 Audit: 75 Million More Children in School, 100 Million Still Left Out

Girls in STEM: Why a Decade of African Targets Failed — and What Three Countries Are Doing Differently

Girls in STEM: Why a Decade of African Targets Failed — and What Three Countries Are Doing Differently

Africa’s Deep Tech Boom Is Built on a Fragile Research Foundation

The CESA 2016-2025 Audit: 75 Million More Children in School, 100 Million Still Left Out

The Scholarship Pipeline: How STEM Programs Are Reshaping African Talent

The 1% Promise: Which African Governments Are Meeting the Kigali R&D Commitment — and What the Gap Costs the Continent

Africa Offshore Wind: Zero Commissioned Capacity Despite 100GW Announced Projects

Africa Offshore Wind: Zero Commissioned Capacity Despite 100GW Announced Projects

Nigeria Fintech M&A Pipeline Q2 2026: Who Is Buying the Compliance Laggards?

The Merch Gap: Why African Creators Leave Money on the Table With Physical Products

Africa’s Reality TV Format Economy: Inside the Business of Big Brother Naija, Format Fees, and the Sponsor Arms Race

Building a Game Studio in Africa Costs $3,000 a Month. Publishing One Game Costs Three Times That. The Unit Economics Explain Why African Studios Struggle to Scale.

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The 1% Promise: Which African Governments Are Meeting the Kigali R&D Commitment — and What the Gap Costs the Continent

Africa Offshore Wind: Zero Commissioned Capacity Despite 100GW Announced Projects

Africa Offshore Wind: Zero Commissioned Capacity Despite 100GW Announced Projects

Nigeria Fintech M&A Pipeline Q2 2026: Who Is Buying the Compliance Laggards?