Tull, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1884-6904 and Waweru, Alice (2026) Between logframe and lived reality: knowledge-weaving in youth entrepreneurship. In: Rauseo, Sterling ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5597-0771, Ijaz, Abdullah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4180-7399, Dogar, Adnan and Emmanuel, Myrtle ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7975-9751, (eds.) Youth Employment and Employability in the Global South: Reflections on Decolonisation and Empowermen. Palgrave. (In Press)

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Abstract

That familiar feeling, for the experienced practitioner designing youth entrepreneurship programmes in sub-Saharan Africa: so much potential, so many opportunities, but getting involved means navigating seemingly irreconcilable tensions. Donor contracts demanding predetermined outputs and standardised processes; evaluation frameworks pre-specifying 'success' in income and employment metrics – in contexts of poor infrastructure, scarce resources, even scarcer capital, limited public services. The more that donor reporting, ratings agencies and standardised project design converge on ‘best practices’, the greater the pressure to informally make accommodations and compromises when working within the highly-competitive market for ‘good projects’ (Krause, 2014). This picture is at odds with the lived experience of the entrepreneurship practitioner, however; achieving worthwhile outcomes challenges projects to become open to contextual learning, rather than constrained to pre-built templates. Practitioners find themselves making unorthodox adaptations, drawing on tacit know-how and embodied competencies as local participants with their own adaptive practices. This contextualised agility collides with development’s institutional logic, however; there seems no escaping the reality that contractual obligations and processes demand a bedrock of standard knowledge categories. Institutional logics tend toward binary thinking and hierarchy, with the non-formal relegated to being, at best, supplementary content ‘added’ to Western frameworks – peripheral to what can be measured.

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	Contributor's Agreement signed 27 July 2025. Final R&R response delivered 5 March 2026.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	youth employability, entrepreneurship, logical framework, knowing
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Greenwich Business School Greenwich Business School > School of Business, Operations and Strategy
Last Modified:	08 Apr 2026 11:03
URI:	https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/52633

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