How the power of Alumni networks can achieve positive impactful change and better life outcomes for youth.
A unique survey of schools in Australia, Kenya, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom ‘Positive Outlooks, Stronger Community Ties’ Kamini Paul CEO of inHive tells us why this report is so important: “I am delighted to be able to share the report ‘The Impact of Alumni Network Programmes on Educators’ which is the result of a two-year collaborative research project conducted in partnership with CARE Pakistan, Future First UK, Future First Kenya and Our School Australia. As the first international study of its kind, the report examines the impact of alumni network programmes on educators in secondary schools, with survey findings …
Social Change Networks Playbook
The Networks Playbook is the product of a participatory learning journey we co-created in 2021. Together, we addressed some of the key questions, challenges and opportunities of impact networks, as well as good practices in facilitating and funding networks. This playbook is our contribution to share these learnings and support fellow practitioners and funders who develop networks for social impact. This playbook begins to share ideas and frameworks around: How do we most effectively take networks from talk to action? How do we convey the value of networks? What are good practices to build networks? How can networks drive systems …
Networks Learning Journey Summary
In January 2021, inHive launched the inaugural cohort of our Networks Learning Journey, a virtual interactive learning series to bring conversations about networks as a tool for social change to the fore. This series brings together leaders in the field; practitioners, academics, and funders of networks to consider the value of networks: why they are worth investing in, how to create sustainable networks and how they can be structured to deliver social impact and contribute to lasting systems change. In our final session of the journey, we reflect on our collective learnings and the questions we have unpacked as a …
PEDN Final Report (2020)
In 2018 inHive started its partnership with the leading Ugandan youth-focused non-profit organisation, the Private Education Development Network (PEDN), to introduce new ways of thinking about engaging former learners in 92 primary and secondary schools. Our project was funded through Opportunity International’s grant within the UKAID Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC-T) and enabled PEDN and inHive to train teachers on how to set up sustainable and engaged alumni networks at their schools. Throughout the 2019 school year, former students, so called Old Boys (OB’s) and Old Girls (OG’s) have been helping improve the life outcomes for more than 22,000 girls and …
Future First Kenya: Impact Report 2019
While a culture of Alumni community-building exists in Kenya, practice is sporadic and professional support is virtually non-existent. Alumni Communities, therefore, exist as loose social networks rather than purpose-driven groups that can be mobilised to support young Kenyans through the school to work transition, provide social, governance and financial capital to public schools and better advancement for alumni. Years ago, we set out to systematically support Public schools to engage their alumni better. Every data we have collected over the last six years indicate a ripe environment for mass alumni activity in Kenya school. We have shared some of these …
Teach For All – Community Building Toolkit
Today there are nearly 80,000 participants and alumni of Teach For All network partners in more than 50 countries across the world. One of Teach For All’s biggest priorities is to build an interconnected, global community of participants and alumni who are learning from and supporting each other. They believe that local leaders can often move much faster when they have the tools and resources to start their own connections with peers, share their experiences and work together to have a greater impact. To strengthen this effort, Teach For All have created this Community Building Toolkit that brings together best practices from …
Catalyst 2030
inHive recently contributed to the Catalyst 2030 Report: From Crisis To Systems Change. Read more about Catalyst 2030, their vision, and how a sector wide collaboration will accelerate the move towards the Sustainable Development Goals here. …
CARE Foundation: Mid-line results (2020)
Since late 2018, inHive has been working with CARE Foundation’s team to strengthen alumni networks at 20 schools in and around the city of Lahore, Pakistan. With the support from the UK Government’s Small Charities Challenge Fund, we have completed the first year of our partnership, in which we piloted an approach to building alumni networks in primary and secondary schools that are either run or supported by CARE Foundation. …
PEDN: Mid-line results (2019)
Since January 2019, Future First Global has been working in Uganda with Private Education Development Network (PEDN) to integrate alumni networks into primary and secondary schools in Eastern and Central regions. Funded through Opportunity International’s grant within the UK’s DFID’s Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC-T) project, PEDN and FFG have introduced alumni into the lives of 92 schools at the beginning of the 2019 school year. …
Health Poverty Action: Mid-line results (2019)
Future First Global is working in partnership with Health Poverty Action to build alumni networks at 28 schools in the Southern Province of Rwanda. The initiative, part of the UK Government’s Girls’ Education Project, will support young people by connecting them with former students of their school – who are a relatable source of advice and can provide access to opportunities relevant to their local community. …
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