Category: Blog

BY ABI NOKES AND DANNY GILLILAND This post was originally published on HundrED In this collaborative article co-authored by HundrED Head of Growth Danny Gilliland and Abi Nokes Chief Executive Officer at inHive, explore networks. Danny and Abi are on a life-long journey to learn and connect. They spend their professional lives geeking out about the part networks can play in driving positive change and equity in education systems, and the back-end support they need for this to be realised. In this article, they share 10 recommendations on how to build and support networks. Networks have been experiencing something of a …

By Prerna Aswani In interviewing the founders of two diaspora networks, the Oliver Kamanzi from the Chicago based African Global Chamber of Commerce and Utkarsh Amitabh, from the global career exploration network, Network Capital, our colleague Prerna explores what binds diaspora networks together. At inHive, we often speak about harnessing the power of your hive, whether this be your local community, those who you have grown up with, gone to school or university with or participated in a programme with. Alumni of schools, universities or even other institutions have a sense of belonging that comes from a shared experience that …

Today we share the final instalment in this month’s partner spotlight series. Following Hisham’s and Julie’s stories, this blog takes us to Toronto, where Emmanuela works for the Mastercard Foundation’s Scholars Program. Emmanuela joined the Foundation after leaving Kenya on a scholarship to study economics in Canada. She is a young leader who cares for and about young people on the continent and so she has been a vocal advocate for deep listening about their issues in the North American chapter of the Foundation’s alumni network.   By Emmanuela Alimlim, Program Analyst at the Mastercard Foundation and Ján Michalko  Ján Michalko: The Frame  Neither one of us remember …

Last week, we started our second annual campaign, in which we shine light on the work and lives of our colleagues and friends in partner organisations. In the first blog in the series, we heard from Hisham (PYCA), and today we welcome to the website Julie from Forum for African Women in Educationalists (FAWE). Our Senior Project Lead, Gemma, offers an introduction to inHive’s work with FAWE since February of this year. Julie’s blog then depict some of the issues in their sector and countries, as the regional secretariat she is part of support activities across the African continent.  Networks to support everyone: creating collaborative spaces  By Gemma May and Julie Khamati, Programme Assistant (Alumni Coordinator) at FAWE, Kenya  When we first started working with Julie, we found a big community of women and men who had a strong affinity to FAWE’s vision and a desire to connect …

In November 2020 we launched a special month-long campaign in which we shone light on the work and lives of our colleagues and friends in partner organisations. Elie, Unaza and Pippa joined us as guest writers to reveal what their day-to-day work looks like as they mobilize various stakeholders for transformative change and to share some of their views on complex challenges they are trying to address.   This November, we run our partner spotlight series again as we continue to be surrounded by inspirational network champions. We are welcoming to inHive’s website Hisham (PYCA), Julie (FAWE) and Emmanuela (Mastercard Foundation). As last year, the inHive team offer a frame to …

By Muhammad Umair and Ján Michalko In this blog, Umair and Ján reflect on the experience working through the pandemic to complete a project between inHive and CARE Foundation to set up alumni networks in Pakistan. Funded by UKAID, the project turned towards online learning instead of in-person capacity building of school-based committees. They share how a 5-series training video programme was created with the help of alumni and what they learnt as they were pushed out of their comfort zone. We thought we had it figured out. Why wouldn’t we? Schools had just reopened after the winter holidays and …

Musings on learning and transformation with an alumni lens (Part 2)  By Ján Michalko  with Ben, Dela, Isadora, Jess, and Tamzin   This is the second instalment of a two-part essay series in which Ján reflects on the role of inter-generational dialogue and learning with the help of our friends and colleagues from around the world. Focusing on crises and transitions, it shows how schools and young people engage in difficult conversations on histories and social justice and how alumni play a role in the process of social transformation.   “Ignorance of history serves many ends. Sometimes it papers over the crimes of the present by attributing too much power to the past. Perhaps more often, it covers up past crimes in order to …

Musings on learning and transformation with an alumni lens (Part 1)  Written by Ján Michalko with Dušan, Judka and Peter   In the first instalment of a two-part essay series, our Senior Project Lead Ján reflects on the role of inter-generational dialogue and learning in contexts of crisis and transitions. The essays bring together experiences from our friends and colleagues around the world – from Slovakia to South Africa. They demonstrate how teachers and young people engage in difficult conversations on histories and social justice and how alumni can play a role in the process of social transformation.   It was quite a surprise. A plane with COVID-19 vaccines landed in the eastern city of Košice in my home country of Slovakia to the welcome of the prime minister. You might think that in the midst of the pandemic, when our hopes were latched on the vaccines, this would be a reason for unconditional celebration. A positive surprise, one might say.   The vaccines were, however, the Russian manufactured Sputnik V. At the …

Written by Prerna Aswani, Project Lead at inHive in collaboration with Kavya Mohta, Project Associate at Nirantar Trust This blog reflects on the growing efforts towards challenging traditional gender norms in India, zooming into the example of Nirantar Trust, a feminist organisation that develops cross-sectoral collaborations & networks to challenge the status quo on women’s role in the economy. THE STATUS QUO FOR WOMEN IN INDIA In some ways, the position of women in India has markedly improved; in 2018-19, women represented over 50% of undergraduates, reflecting a narrowing of the gender education gap. Yet whilst the education gap might …