Our Impact
Learmpower Initiative For Empowerment is a Nigerian nonprofit. This page explains the problem we work on, how our model addresses it, and what we measure along the way.
The problem
Nigeria has one of the youngest populations in the world, and a large share of that population is neither in education, in employment, nor in training. The International Labour Organization's Global Employment Trends for Youth reporting found that 28.4 percent of Nigerian youth fell into this category, and that 93 percent of employed Nigerians work in the informal sector, often in unstable jobs that offer little income security.
The ILO's own analysis points to a skills mismatch, not a lack of ambition, as a central driver: many young Nigerians are overqualified for the work available to them, underqualified for the work they want, or working in fields unrelated to what they trained for. Closing that gap, between the skills people have and the skills employers are actually hiring for, is the specific problem Learmpower exists to work on.
Sources: ILO, Global Employment Trends for Youth 2024, Sub-Saharan Africa and ILO Nigeria policy brief.
Our approach
We treat this as a matching problem as much as a training problem. A participant starts with a diagnostic intake: a short set of questions and a real micro-task, which we use to recommend a specific programme rather than a generic course catalogue. From there, participants work through a structured programme built around the skills employers are actually hiring for.
Completion alone is not the goal. Participants submit real work as proof of what they can do, and a coach reviews it before a certificate is issued, so a Learmpower certificate reflects verified skill, not just attendance. Participants who reach that bar become discoverable to organisations that are hiring, closing the loop between training and an actual opportunity.
Theory of change
Free curriculum, an AI-assisted intake process, coach time for reviewing real work, and a platform that connects participants to organisations.
Diagnose each participant's starting point, guide them through a structured programme, and review the real work they submit as proof of skill.
Participants who complete programmes, submissions that are reviewed, and certificates issued for verified proof of skill.
Participants with employment-ready skills they can prove, and organisations able to find and hire them.
What we measure
These are the things we actually track today. We are early, so some of these are not yet meaningful numbers to publish. We say so plainly rather than leaving them out.
Every person who creates a Learmpower Guild account.
Enrolments where a participant finished the programme and passed its final.
Real work submitted as proof of skill and taken through to a reviewed outcome.
We do not yet have a systematic way of tracking when a hiring organisation reaches out to a participant. This is a real gap in our measurement, not a number we are choosing to hide.
Results to date
These figures are pulled live from our database, not typed in by hand. Where a count is still too small to be meaningful, we show what we track without a number next to it.