Skills for Africa’s Economic Growth

The African Union is pleased to invite you to participate in the East Africa Regional Africa Creates Jobs (ACJ) virtual workshop to be  held on August 16th & 17th, 2021. In preparation for the continental event, Africa Creates Jobs, in November 2021 which will provide a dialogue platform for key African stakeholders to discuss and develop continental responses to youth employment and skills promotion; the AUC and the AUDA-NEPAD through SIFA (Skills Initiative for Africa) are organizing five regional online workshops.

The 2021 theme for Africa Creates Jobs Skills for Africa's Economic Growth  . The ACJ regional online workshops are spaces for multiple stakeholders to discuss region-specific strategies to scale-up efforts for job creation, skills development and small enterprise development for African youth.

Your work and achievements have enabled the African Union and its partners to identify you as a quality resource person for this discussion. We will be very honoured if you would take time out of your busy schedule to participate in this extremely important workshop. You will be contributing to developing a strategy for skills development in your region and helping the African Union to develop solutions to the challenge of African youth employment.

The African Continent must make an economic recovery post the Covid-19 pandemic, while harnessing the prospects for expanded industrialization, markets and trade opportunities to spur growth and meet the demand for over 20 million jobs per year. As East Africa adjusts to this new economy, key questions arise: The discussion in these regional workshops will be centered on the above questions and outcomes used to develop key recommendations to present to African policy-makers at the continental event in November 2021.

Due to the Covid-19 crisis the workshop will be held virtually. We will use the Zoom platform. This application can be downloaded free of charge on this website: www.zoom.us. You will need a stable internet connection. To participate, you will need to reserve the time slots from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on August 16th and 17th, 2021.

 With the additional challenge of coordinating everyone’s availability virtually, we would be most grateful to have confirmation of your participation no later than August 10, 2021 through your registration.

For any additional information you may need, please contact
Mary Nyaga, Senior Technical Advisor/Regional Coordinator, SIFA
Email: mary.nyaga@giz.de
Tel: +254 700 142 325

Please register here for the regional workshop.

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