Amref Youth Council Ethiopia

What Amref Youth Council Ethiopia does

Amref Youth Council Ethiopia is a non-profit entity established in 2018, headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with a small (1-10 employee) footprint that appears to function as a youth advisory/engagement structure within the broader Amref Health Africa network. The parent organization, Amref Health Africa, is the largest African-led international health organization on the continent, founded in 1957 in Kenya as the Flying Doctors of East Africa and currently operating across 35 African countries with additional fundraising offices in Europe and North America. The organization's core technical assets include proprietary mHealth platforms: LEAP (a mobile learning platform for community health worker training, co-developed with Accenture, M-Pesa Foundation, Safaricom, and Kenya's Ministry of Health) and M-Jali (a mobile application for capturing household-level health data). Together these platforms have trained over 3,000 community health volunteers and reached 300,000+ community members with health education.

Amref operates four wholly-owned subsidiaries (Amref Enterprises Limited for commercial mHealth services, Amref International University for health professional education, Amref Medical Centre for clinical services, and Amref Flying Doctors for aviation medical services) and runs 150 health-focused projects reaching approximately 11 million people annually. The business model is fundamentally donation- and grant-based, with funding from individuals, governments, foundations (notably the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Dutch Postcode Lottery), and corporate partners (AstraZeneca, GSK, Dalbit Kenya, Royal Philips). The social enterprise arm (Amref Enterprises Limited) layers in commercial revenues from licensing LEAP and M-Jali to other development stakeholders. Distribution occurs primarily through direct partnerships with ministries of health and county-level governments, supplemented by WHO, Africa CDC, and NHIF integration for system-level health financing work. Strategic priorities documented in the input include non-communicable disease expansion (cancer curriculum, hypertension screening), outbreak response (COVID-19 PCR testing launched in 2020), and continental policy convening via the SPARC initiative hosted since 2018.

Name

Amref Youth Council Ethiopia

Legal name

Amref Health Africa

Website

https://amref.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1957

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Amref Youth Council Ethiopia is a small (1-10 employee) non-profit established in 2018 in Addis Ababa, functioning as a youth advisory structure within Amref Health Africa, the largest African-led international health organization operating across 35 countries and reaching 11 million people annually through proprietary mHealth platforms and government health partnerships.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Health and Non-Profit Health Services

NAICS

Social Assistance (624), Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813), Child and Youth Services (62411)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

International & Local Implementing NGOs (HLAJAKAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Maternal, Newborn, Child & Adolescent Health (MNCAH) NGOs (HLAJAKAG), Humanitarian Health & Emergency Medical Relief NGOs (HLAJAKAE), NGO/Nonprofit Education Programs & Service Delivery (EDADALAC), Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus & Resilience Programming (BPADAEAK)

Keywords

• Community health programs
• MHealth training platforms
• Health system strengthening
• Community health worker training
• Nonprofit health services

Headquarters

HQ city

Addis Ababa

HQ country

Ethiopia

HQ region

Africa

Offices17 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Donations and Grants: Amref Health Africa operates as a non-profit organization funded primarily through donations from individuals, governments, foundations, and institutional donors. The organization receives grants from development partners for specific health programs.
2. Social Enterprise Services: Amref Enterprises Limited provides health training solutions and mHealth platforms as commercial services to stakeholders including donors, implementers, and ministries of health.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Amref Youth Council Ethiopia operates as a non-profit, community-based health organization delivering health programs, community health worker training, and health system strengthening within Ethiopia as part of Amref Health Africa's broader network. It facilitates access to mobile health (mHealth) training tools (LEAP, M-Jali) and community health initiatives in collaboration with the Ethiopian Ministry of Health, targeting underserved populations through community health worker networks and partnership-driven program delivery.

Product overview

Amref Enterprises Limited operates as a social enterprise subsidiary of Amref Health Africa, offering a portfolio of health technology products and services. The core offerings include LEAP (mHealth training platform for community health workers), M-Jali (mobile application for community health data collection), and i-PUSH (maternal health initiative combining multiple platforms). The company also provides the Amref Medical Centre healthcare facility, an eLearning program for nursing education, the AHAIC annual conference, and operates an ethics hotline service. These products work together to deliver community health education, healthcare financing integration (NHIF, M-TIBA), and health data management across Africa.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Leap: mHealth platform for training community health workers using mobile technology
• M-Jali
• i-PUSH
• LEAP

Quantifiable outcome

• 11 million people reached annually across 35 countries
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

AI capability4 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Royal PhilipscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPublic-private partnership with Royal Philips for enhancement of Makueni County's primary care system. Philips provides innovative technology solutions in health informatics, personal health, treatment, and diagnosis. Partnership aims to improve access to high quality primary care in a financially sustainable and scalable way.
• PharmAccesscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint partnership called i-PUSH combining M-TIBA (PharmAccess), Leap and m-Jali (Amref) to improve access to better health care for 100,000 women and their families in Kenya through mobile phones.
• AccenturecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTechnology partner that co-developed the LEAP mHealth platform along with Ministry of Health and Safaricom.
• SafaricomcoreTechnology or IntegrationTelecommunications partner that co-developed the LEAP mHealth platform for mobile-based health worker training.
• Kenya Ministry of HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGovernment ministry that partnered in development and endorsement of LEAP as the mLearning product of choice for community health worker training.
• Makueni County GovernmentcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCounty government partnership for primary care system enhancement. Makueni County allocates 28% of its budget to healthcare, including the universal health coverage insurance scheme Makueni Care.
• Kenya Ministry of HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMinistry supported in COVID-19 response including ramping up Amref Central Laboratory for testing and analysis of COVID-19 samples. Amref Central Laboratory was approved by Ministry to support COVID-19 testing.
• National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Kenya's NHIF to fast-track scale-up of Universal Health Coverage using Community Health Workers as agents for NHIF registration at community level.
• Results for Development (R4D)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAmref Health Africa hosts the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC), a new initiative aimed at strengthening strategic health purchasing in sub-Saharan Africa. SPARC is launched by R4D in partnership with Amref.
• Africa CDCcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Africa CDC alongside WHO in preventive measures to curb COVID-19 spread and strengthen frontline health workers. Amref partnered with Ministry of Health and Africa CDC in Kenya to improve surveillance, early detection and track spread of disease.
• World Health Organization (WHO)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWHO and Africa CDC scaling up preparedness efforts for COVID-19 in African region. Amref Health Africa has consistently supported WHO during outbreak interventions.
• Meru County GovernmentminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCounty government partnership for mental health workshop to pretest CHEW content for community health workers in Meru County.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Last Mile Health: Trains, equips, and digitally supports community health workers in Africa, with a strong focus on digital tools and government partnership—the closest comparable to Amref's CHW and mHealth franchise.
• Living Goods: Operates a community health worker network in sub-Saharan Africa with mobile-enabled training, supervision, and data capture—directly comparable to Amref's LEAP and M-Jali operating model and target geography.
• Partners in Health: Health system strengthening and CHW-led care delivery in low-resource settings, including African countries—overlapping mission and operational model with Amref's community health approach.
• Medic (formerly Medic Mobile): Builds open-source mHealth tools for community health workers and ministries of health. Directly comparable technology stack and beneficiary base to Amref's LEAP and M-Jali platforms.
• IntraHealth International: Health workforce-focused NGO with deep African programs supporting CHWs, nurses, and ministry-led HRH systems—directly comparable training and policy mandate to Amref's workforce programs.
• Pathfinder International: Sexual, reproductive, and maternal health NGO with deep African field presence and government partnerships—directly comparable health-system-strengthening and community delivery model to Amref.
• Jhpiego: Affiliated with Johns Hopkins, Jhpiego trains frontline health workers and strengthens health systems across Africa—directly comparable to Amref's workforce training and health-system programs.

Broad incumbents

• BRAC: Large multi-sector development organization operating health, education, and microfinance programs across Africa and Asia—overlapping on community health worker networks and health system strengthening.
• Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI): Global health organization negotiating pricing, training health workers, and supporting ministries on health system reform—broader scope than Amref but overlapping on health workforce and government advisory work.
• PATH: Global health innovation NGO working across vaccines, devices, and health systems in Africa—comparable breadth of programs and government engagement but focused on technology innovation rather than CHW service delivery.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/Amref_Worldwide
• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/AMREFHome
• Facebookfacebook.com/AmrefHealthAfrica
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/amref-youth-council-ethiopia
• Instagraminstagram.com/amrefhealthafrica

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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