“Announcing the Africa Jobs Fund” by Benh713

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 [...] --- 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 --- First published: May 27th, 2026 Source: --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO . --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts , or another podcast app.