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Accelerating the AfDB’s Response to the Youth Unemployment Crisis in Africa

Author: Agnes Soucat, Ginette Muteta Nzau, Nawsheen Elaheebocus and Joao Cunha-Duarte
Organisation: African Development Bank Group
Publish Date: 2013
Country: Africa
Sector: Economic
Method: Creative thinking
Theme: Employment
Type: Article
Tags: Youth, Unemployment, Job creation, Development partners, Capacity building, Sustainable growth

This paper was prepared as a background paper for the Joint Youth Employment Initiative for Africa which was launched in 2011 by the AfDB, African Union, ILO and UNECA. The objective of this initiative is to support Regional Member Countries (RMCs) in addressing the growing youth unemployment crisis in Africa. This paper was primarily a response to: (i) the Board’s concerns on high unemployment in the continent, particularly among the youth (ii) the need for a coherent Bank perspective for the high-level seminar on “youth unemployment and inclusive growth” at the 2011 annual meetings; (iii) the need for integration of job creation issues in Bank operations as per the review of the Medium-Term Strategy 2008-2012; (iv) the immediate crisis in youth unemployment in light of the uprisings in North Africa; (v) the need to strengthen AfDB’s collaboration with governments, development partners and the private sector to build capacity and develop both regional and country-specific strategies; and (vi) (last but not least) the opportunity for harnessing the demographic dividend for sustainable growth and development.
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