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Lasse Leponiemi

Chairman, The HundrED Foundation
first.last@hundred.org

Keep Working. Keep Learning. Keep Growing

Competence Over Classrooms. Opportunity for All. Learning Never Stops. Opportunity Never Ends

Millions of working adults cannot leave their jobs to pursue formal education, leaving valuable skills unrecognized. Our competency-based assessment and certification platform enables people to learn through flexible pathways and earn recognized credentials by proving their competence. This expands lifelong learning, strengthens the workforce, and drives economic growth.

Overview

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Updated August 2026

2026

Established

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All students
Target group
A factory worker should not have to resign from employment to improve professionally. A teacher should not have to abandon learners in order to upgrade knowledge. A police officer on scheduled downtime should be able to study law, leadership, or criminology. A soldier should be able to develop expertise in engineering, logistics, cybersecurity, or management while serving the nation. A nurse should be able to advance professional knowledge while continuing to care for patients. An entrepreneur should be able to learn finance, marketing, or technology without closing a business.

About the innovation

Why did you create this innovation?

Uganda's economic transformation depends on the continuous development of its people. Millions of Ugandans are already employed in essential sectors—including education, healthcare, security, agriculture, manufacturing, public service, and entrepreneurship but many cannot leave work to pursue full-time education. As a result, valuable human potential remains underdeveloped despite the widespread availability of learning resources and modern technology.
Many have the desire to improve themselves, but face barriers such as time, cost, distance, family responsibilities, disability, or rigid academic schedules.
Yet today, knowledge is more accessible than ever before. Through books, online courses, digital libraries, artificial intelligence, educational videos, professional communities, and workplace experience, individuals can learn almost anywhere.
The challenge is no longer access to knowledge. The challenge is access to credible recognition of that knowledge.
Our vision is to build a national competency assessment and certification system that allows every Ugandan to continue learning throughout life while remaining productive in their workplaces and communities.
A factory worker should not have to resign from employment to improve professionally.
A teacher should not have to abandon learners in order to upgrade knowledge.
A police officer on scheduled downtime should be able to study law, leadership, or criminology.
A soldier and more professionals

What does your innovation look like in practice?

Competency Assessment and Qualifications Authority that recognizes knowledge and skills acquired through self-study, work experience, research, and lifelong learning. Learners demonstrate competence through standardized assessments conducted by qualified experts, and earn qualifications that are recognized nationally and internationally

How has it been spreading?

Due to limited capital is running on slowly but i have found that people are more interested in it

If I want to try it, what should I do?

you need to be ready because this is passion based program Education should recognize what a person knows and can do, not only where or how they learned it.

Every individual deserves an opportunity to demonstrate competence before qualified experts and receive fair recognition for their achievements.

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