Launched in 2016 by the executive heads of the United Nations (UN), Decent Jobs for Youth is the global initiative to tackle the youth employment crisis and to ensure that young people have access to decent work in line with the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
NEPAD’s move to join Decent Jobs for youth comes together with its important commitment to train 15,000 African youth and women along strategic agricultural value chains over three years.
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With a focus on disadvantaged young women in the rural economy, this new effort is led by NEPAD’s Skills and Employment for Youth Programme.
It relies on AU/NEPAD policy frameworks to support national development policy planning and the engagement with the private sector across four key pillars.
The pillars include employment creation, skills and employability, and entrepreneurship and small enterprise development.
NEPAD’s contribution to Decent Jobs for Youth is also aligned to the African Union’s Agenda 2063: ‘The Africa We Want’, which seeks to develop skills and youth entrepreneurship for job creation, especially in rural areas.
The collaboration between the NEPAD Agency, ILO and partners of Decent Jobs for Youth aims to boost action around green jobs for youth.
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