Toolkit
Entrepreneurship Policy Toolkit A practical guide designed for policy innovators to co-create entrepreneurship reforms, offering tools, examples, and case studies to strengthen startup and SME policy frameworks across Africa.
Knowledge Sharing
Pan-African Policy Taskforce
The Pan-African Policy Taskforce is a participant-led platform co-led by Smart Africa Alliance, i4Policy and The Tony Blair Institute and the Allan Gray Centre for Africa Entrepreneurship (AGCAE). The Taskforce was created from a collective need voiced by the African startup ecosystem to cultivate connections, enable the flow of information, and provide a venue where specific expertise, learnings and best practice can be shared.
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co>gov lab
The co>gov lab is i4Policy’s dedicated space for researching, experimenting, innovating, and implementing methods and frameworks in our own unique way, aiming to empower decision-makers, communities, and individuals with the tools needed to drive lasting, meaningful governance change.
Youth Policy Paper
The paper argues that integrating youth perspectives into decision-making processes is crucial for overcoming barriers to digital transformation, such as inadequate ICT infrastructure and a lack of standardized digital laws. It proposes that meaningful youth inclusion can foster innovation, economic growth, and stronger institutions.
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Agroforestry Development in Ghana: A Participatory Approach to Progress
This comprehensive report, commissioned by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) and authored by i4Policy, explores the current state, challenges, and opportunities of agroforestry development in Ghana. It highlights agroforestry’s potential for sustainable development but notes its limitations, particularly a strong focus on cocoa-based systems despite the potential for other crops and ecological zones. The report identifies key stakeholders, including governmental bodies, traditional authorities, the private sector, NGOs, and international organizations, and examines the complex interplay of legal frameworks, land and tree tenure issues, socioeconomic disincentives, and environmental challenges. Ultimately, it proposes a participatory blueprint for success, emphasizing the need for a unified national agroforestry policy, stakeholder collaboration, and the leveraging of technology to address existing barriers and unlock Ghana’s full agroforestry potential.
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Benchmarking study of entrepreneurship laws in Africa
The Benchmark report identifies 22 African SBAs and Startup Acts, benchmarks them and identifies 15 other instruments for comparison. Find out what the highlights are and learn from our recommendations.
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Feminist African Manifesto for Entrepreneurship
A deliberate approach to center African female entrepreneurs in policymaking and provide a candid snapshot of life as a female entrepreneur in Africa.
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Participedia School on Transnational Democratic Innovations
We partnered with Participedia and seven other universities and organizations to launch the School on Transnational Democratic Innovations. This initiative connected students and practitioners worldwide with leading experts to learn about and design transnational processes to address global challenges. Participants drew inspiration from the world’s first Global Citizens’ Assembly, the coordinators of the Conference on the Future of Europe, prominent academics in democratic innovation and transnational governance, and activists advocating for UN reform. The event took place simultaneously at two decentralized locations: Memorial University in St. John’s, Canada, and the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa. For more information, see Participedia’s report here.
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#Don’tGoViral campaign
We partnered with UNESCO and launched the #Don’tGoViral campaign to address the problem of misinformation on the African continent. Working together with musicians and artists like Bobby Wine (Member of Parliament in Uganda), Youssou Ndour (Former Minister of Tourism of Senegal) and Didier Awadi (Rapper from Senegal) #Don’tGoViral went viral quickly, soliciting applications from artists throughout the continent, and reaching 200 million people in less than 6 weeks via TV, Radio and online.
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Guide: How to organise a policy hackathon
This guide aims to better equip organisations, local governments, and policymakers with the necessary information to envision Policy Hackathons as an additional tool to support and empower citizens to co-create effective policies. It’s equally valuable for activists and citizens eager to understand how these events operate and bring fellow community members into the co-creation of policies. This guide offers an overview of Policy Hackathons, including what they entail, how they operate, their suitability for specific policy-making processes, and who is involved in the process. It also provides a step-by-step approach explaining how to carry out a Policy Hackathon event.
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