Youth Employment
Youth Employment in Eastern and Southern Africa
A Knowledge Sharing Forum to showcase innovative work, challenges and opportunities for youth employment policies in Comoros, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
ADDIS ABABA/HARARE (ILO News) – The three-day Eastern and Southern Africa Youth Employment Knowledge Sharing Forum adopted key youth employment policy recommendations with a focus on better job creation, youth participation and strategic partnerships impacting lives.
Organized by the ILO Harare office in Zimbabwe, the Forum engaged creative young men and women, representatives of the government, workers’ and employers’ organisations, the UN System, development partners, academia, and civil society on key employment strategies, entrepreneurship development, and access to finance for young entrepreneurs.
One of the top priorities of the Forum attended by Mrs Priscah Mupfumira, the Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare was to discuss and disseminate innovative approaches and good practices on skills development and measuring the impact of Youth Employment Initiatives.
This knowledge sharing forum is expected to help in developing a roadmap for integrating the labour market trends to address the need for creating productive and decent employment particularly for young women and men.
Youth unemployment in Africa is characterized by a youth population much higher than most other regions worldwide, weak national labour markets and persistently high levels of poverty.
Youth unemployment in Sub-Saharan Africa is twice that of adults (12.8 for youth and 6.5 for adults) but unemployment is only the tip of the iceberg. African youth are more likely to be underemployed and among the working poor than the general population.
Organized by the ILO Harare office in Zimbabwe, the Forum engaged creative young men and women, representatives of the government, workers’ and employers’ organisations, the UN System, development partners, academia, and civil society on key employment strategies, entrepreneurship development, and access to finance for young entrepreneurs.
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This knowledge sharing forum is expected to help in developing a roadmap for integrating the labour market trends to address the need for creating productive and decent employment particularly for young women and men.
Youth unemployment in Africa is characterized by a youth population much higher than most other regions worldwide, weak national labour markets and persistently high levels of poverty.
Youth unemployment in Sub-Saharan Africa is twice that of adults (12.8 for youth and 6.5 for adults) but unemployment is only the tip of the iceberg. African youth are more likely to be underemployed and among the working poor than the general population.