What JEP aims to develop in learners, what our 2025 programme assessment found, and how we will measure change from 2027.
Learners holding up their certificates outside a classroom block.
Intended outcomes
What learners develop
Entrepreneurial capabilities that matter whatever a learner does next. Not every learner will start a business, and JEP does not expect them to.
Problem-solvingStudying a real problem, finding its causes and testing what works.
InitiativeStarting something, instead of waiting for someone else to.
CreativityImagining and designing responses that do not exist yet.
Financial understandingWorking out costs, resources and value, at home, at school and in a venture.
Building useful solutionsTurning knowledge into something that works for real people.
Forms of impact
Better practices at home or at school
Community interventions
Research
Products
Services
Enterprises, for some
Honest status. These are intended outcomes. Results from JEP with the Hybrid Edge JEP Studio are not yet available. A baseline and a comparison group start in 2027. The findings below are SXLA's own internal evidence.
Why these capabilities matter
Why it matters: most working people in Uganda are not employees, and many young people create their own work. Seeing a problem and building something useful helps on any path; entrepreneurship is no guarantee of employment.
47.1%of employed people in Uganda were independent workers without employees; 34.2% were employeesUBOS, Labour Force Survey 2021 (published November 2022). Measured. Read Original Research (opens in a new tab)
71.7%of young adult workers (aged 25 to 29) in sub-Saharan Africa were own-account workers, contributing family workers or in temporary paid jobs, which the ILO counts as insecure workILO, Global Employment Trends for Youth 2024: Sub-Saharan Africa (August 2024), 2023 figures. Estimates. Read Original Research (opens in a new tab)
All results below are SXLA's own evidence: internal, not yet independently verified.
2025 programme assessment
What our 2025 programme assessment found
On SXLA's five-level scale, JEP learners were rated 4 (Capable) against peers' 2 (Emerging) on noticing problems, choosing tools and taking initiative. On transfer to new situations, both were rated 2: no gap yet. (Internal, not yet independently verified.)
4 against 2JEP learners (Capable) against peers (Emerging) on noticing problems, choosing the right tools and taking initiativeSXLA 2025 programme assessment (internal, not yet independently verified)
1.5levels: average gap between JEP learners and peers; no gap yet on transferring learning to new situationsInternal, not yet independently verified
Next
What comes next
A baseline and a comparison group start in 2027, so that future reports show measured change. An independent mid-term review is planned for 2028.
