Our evolution
From agency to ecosystem architecture.
We began as a social impact agency. Over many years of work across the continent — designing strategies, producing convenings, documenting movements, advising corporates and foundations — we kept arriving at the same lesson: the actors are strong. The connective tissue is weak.
So Thrive Afrika has evolved into an ecosystem architecture organisation. Our greatest contribution does not come from directly supporting individual social innovators, but from enabling the institutions, funders, support organisations, policymakers and networks around them to work differently — and to work together.
Our work is consciously situated within Agenda 2063 — particularly its aspirations for a prosperous Africa based on inclusive growth, an Africa with a strong cultural identity, and an Africa whose development is driven by its own citizens.
