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We intend to mobilise 100 million dollars of philanthropic capital towards export manufacturing and international labour mobility to double the lifetime incomes of 250,000 low-income people in Africa (creating 10m DCYs).

(This launch article is cross-posted, with some edits, from our Substack.)

We are launching the Africa Jobs Fund to dramatically boost incomes for low-income Africans through access to high-productivity jobs. We will catalyse world-class entrepreneurs to build high-impact, scalable companies in two sectors: export manufacturing and international labour mobility.

We intend to mobilise $100 million towards international labour mobility and export manufacturing. Based on our cost-effectiveness analysis, this funding should enable us to double the lifetime incomes of at least 250,000 low-income people in Africa. To start, we are raising 15 million dollars of philanthropic funding to build at least 20 high-impact companies. We also hope to shift global development work towards focusing on what really matters in the long run: increasing incomes through high-productivity jobs.

The fund is housed within Renaissance Philanthropy; a nonprofit organization building a brighter future for all through the time-bound, thesis-driven philanthropic funds. We are already working on venture-building our first set of companies.

In some respects, the model is quite similar to [...]

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Outline:

(02:17) Why?

(02:20) Poverty in Africa is a huge challenge

(03:02) Higher incomes solve (almost) everything

(04:03) The two pillars

(04:27) International labour mobility

(07:50) Export manufacturing

(11:05) Our model

(12:56) Why not the existing models?

(13:00) Why not build VC startups?

(14:47) Why not build 'highly-effective' non-profit programmes?

(17:45) Who we are

(19:14) What happens next

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First published:
May 27th, 2026

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ubeWJC8rMGGMtYdWF/announcing-the-africa-jobs-fund

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