Rural Youth Employment in Africa: An Evidence Review
Most of the world’s poor today are found in rural Africa, and forecasts suggest that this concentration might become more pronounced...
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Most of the world’s poor today are found in rural Africa, and forecasts suggest that this concentration might become more pronounced...
Published by: Brookings Institution
Opportunities for employment, or the lack of them, have long been a central interest of African governments, young people, and their...
Published by: Oxfam Novib
The program applies a holistic approach to tackle issues of economic empowerment, gender-based discrimination, youth agency and enabling policy and normative environments
There is consensus among policymakers and the research community that demand for young people’s labour is the main constraint to...
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
As policy-makers turn their attention to Africa’s youth employment challenge and respond with programmes targeting young people, it is...
The triad of entrepreneurship, self-employment, and financial inclusion underpins policy and development interventions meant to address the youth employment challenge in Africa. Youth savings groups are being widely promoted as a first step toward financial inclusion and economic empowerment.
Published by: Expert Group for Aid Studies
Swedens Development Finance Institution Swedfund was established in 1979. Swedfund’s mandate is to invest in poor countries, through equity acquisitions in individual companies, through funds or through lending. The overarching objective is the same as the objective for Sweden’s international aid to create preconditions for better living conditions for people living in poverty and under oppression.
Published by: Practical Action Publishing
Based on field work in Tanzania, Zambia, Uganda and Ghana, in the paper we provide new evidence that young people’s engagement with savings groups in Africa is deeply embedded in networks of family and social relations. Savings group members rely on money that is given to them by husbands, boyfriends and parents in order to save, and give some of their shareouts and loans to family and friends.
An emerging orthodoxy suggests that agriculture is the key to addressing the youth employment challenge in Africa. The analysis that informs this orthodoxy identifies a number of persistent barriers to increased productivity; and the programmes that work to get young people engaged with agriculture make assumptions about the young people’s interests and behaviours.
Published by: IDS
International development actors increasingly focus on youth employment as a key development challenge.