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Watch our end of year video here.
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| Dear Decent Jobs for Youth readers, Happy Holidays! As we come to the end of 2020, we would like to share with you some of our key achievements from this year. Watch our end of year video linked above. Thank you to our partners for their hard work and committed support in getting us closer to making decent jobs for young people everywhere a reality. |
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Sharing Data to Improve Education & Youth Employment Policies in sub-Saharan Africa
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ESSA has pledged a commitment to Decent Jobs for Youth to share education data in sub-Saharan Africa with a view to improving tertiary education and employment opportunities for youth in the region. Poor access to and use of data hampers the education community in sub-Saharan Africa, preventing the formulation of evidence-informed policy and reform of the education system. To tackle this problem, ESSA in partnership with Zizi Afrique and the Ed Tech Hub, are committing to form a coalition to increase access to education data in Africa, with a particular focus on tertiary education. Read more
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Enhancing Economic Opportunities for Youth through Participation and Capacity building
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Oxfam IBIS has made a commitment to Decent Jobs for Youth to improve economic opportunities for young women and men in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia. They will do this principally through the Youth Participation and Employment (YPE) programme that aims to build diverse and effective partnerships to strengthen technical and job relevant skills for young people, increase organisational capacity of institutions, the private sector, entrepreneurs and communities to support youth, and enhance dialogue between youth, public and private institutions, and businesses. Read more
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Deepening Youth Engagement to Drive Inclusive Entrepreneurship
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Development Alternatives has committed to Decent Jobs for Youth to promote inclusive entrepreneurship in underserved areas of India. They will apply social innovation and system change methodologies for unleashing the entrepreneurial energies of young people. As part of their commitment, they aim to bridge the gaps between voices of the youth and global policies and conversations through their work on global platforms such as Work 4 Progress, the Systems Play initiative and Global Sparks. Read more
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Young Tunisian Women Start Their Own “We Design” Cooperative: Autonomy Through Skills Development
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| As part of the Local Empowerment in Africa for Development (LEAD) programme funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, SPARK, with the support of the local incubator and co-working center Go Community based in Kairouan, Tunisia, has organised a four months capacity building Programme to develop and strengthen the skills of 15 aspiring entrepreneurs. Young women aspiring to establish a leading cooperative in handicrafts and artisanal products have gained the necessary knowledge and techniques to improve their management, communication and business skills. Digital marketing and e-commerce skills to address the challenges of accessing their clients during the pandemic and work on developing their sales online. are among the several themes these young women were trained in. Read more |
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Capacity building of ESOs on Visibility and Access
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The Youth Participation and Employment (YPE) initiative implemented by Oxfam IBIS conducted a two-day virtual workshop with 26 participants and 11 Entrepreneurship Supporting Organisations (ESOs) in Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, and Morocco. The workshops were delivered during November in English and French in collaboration with the Impact Hub Network – a leading a global network for supporting entrepreneurship - on various topics such as communication, branding, marketing and use of social media for program development. The virtual workshops aimed at enhancing communication and branding techniques of the partner ESOs, to accelerate their visibility, access and outreach in the MENA region and beyond. This activity is expected to support youth and women entrepreneurs in the region. Read here
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Creating Opportunities for Local ICT Professionals in Papua New Guinea
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On a mission to redefine tech expertise in the Pacific, Switch Maven runs a free, 3-month software development bootcamp, Pacifica Prime, that sources, trains, employs, and deploys ICT professionals as software developers. Adaptive to the COVID pandemic, Switch Maven turned its bootcamp into a class-room based training program that has participants and tutors interact virtually through online meetings. The bootcamp is structured into a 3-month course that helps participants understand tech concepts and how they can be applied in the real world. Upon completion of the bootcamp, graduates are hired by Switch Maven for 2 years which then have them dive into tech projects in the public and private sectors; designing and developing websites, database management systems, and various other business applications. Read more |
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Passion, financial freedom and dignity – what is a decent job according to Ugandan youth?
On 29 October, the first webinar in the series 'What and when is a job decent to you’ was hosted. The series was initiated by Francis Arinaitwe, youth leader and a board member of Restless Development Uganda, and organized in collaboration with INCLUDE. It aims to bring together various youth from different African countries, including Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Egypt and Tunisia, to break down the official ILO definition of decent work and reflect on how it resonates with their own understanding in their respective countries. A group of highly motivated and skilled youth from Uganda kicked off the first webinar in the series with a discussion centred around what does a decent job mean in Uganda and what is needed tin Uganda to make more jobs decent. Read more |
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Decent Jobs for Youth at RewirEdX
| Decent Jobs for Youth participated in the session "It's our future: reimagining education and work for young people in a post-pandemic world" organised by Restless Development during RewirEdX, a virtual conference serving as a one-year countdown to RewirEd Summit. Watch the recording here |
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