News & events

Many executive courses and capacity-building programs don’t employ tests, exams, and formal assignments, making it trickier to monitor progress and success during the courses. We’ve learnt several lessons in ensuring your students are equipped with what they need, and to instil confidence in their output. Here are our five key learnings from our experience in creating a rigorous measurement process.

Fundamentally they are about building a network

Videoconferencing has been the most significant trend in pandemic times, and these fast-growing platforms have helped people work from home and connect with loved ones. However, they need to be harnessed carefully when it comes to digital education. Here are the five lessons we’ve learnt.

This July marks five years since Arjuna Costa at Omidyar saw something in David, Ignacio and I wanting to solve for the human capital gaps preventing global development initiatives from reaching their true potential. Omidyar seeded our start-up and led the charge to bring in funding from MasterCard Foundation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Financial Sector Deepening Africa, and additional rounds from Omidyar, to prove and later scale our business. We partnered with the Fletcher School at TUFTS University, who trusted us with their brand and supported our academic rigour while coaching our students. Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors offered to house us for our first three years while we proved viable enough to go-it-alone as an independent social enterprise. We opened a tiny one-room office in Cape Town and employed our first two colleagues, Debra Roodt and Joan Snyman, who went on to establish the foundations that make us who we are today. We were joined by class coaches and community of practice facilitators from over a dozen countries who all leant in to build Digital Frontiers, and an incredible team that brought it all together.

Gateway Academy, the digital learning platform for financial inclusion incubated by the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), is merging with Digital Frontiers, a globally recognized non-profit that focuses on capacity building for the development community.

In an increasingly competitive space, employee development and retention are two key challenges for financial institutions in developing countries. One way they are addressing these challenges is by turning to online learning platforms. In this webinar, Noelah Bomani-Ntukamazina of NMB Bank, Tanzania and Jessica Stewart of Creative Metier, shared their institutions' experience in meeting capacity development needs and employee retention goals.

FinDev Gateway interviews Josephine Kibe, Business Development Officer for Gateway Academy, to discuss interest in this project and how it seeks to close the gap between demand and supply in the financial inclusion capacity building market.

In one year, Gateway Academy tested five courses with more than a dozen financial service providers. While the program is still at an early stage, Gateway Academy has observed common opportunities and obstacles as FSPs launch their eLearning programs. In this webinar recording, Gateway Academy’s market development officer and thought leaders from two different FSPs share what they have learned to date.

Strathmore Business School joined CGAP's Gateway Academy to discuss why and how partnerships are integral in delivering digital learning for Sub-Saharan Africa audiences.

How do you effectively conduct evaluation in a dynamic and complex environment? During this webinar, speakers focused on the developmental evaluation approach and how it has been used in Gateway Academy.