Youth employment intervention in Africa : a mapping report of the employment and labour sub-cluster of the Regional Coordination Mechanism (RCM) for Africa.

His report is a timely response to the need to estimate and report on the extent to which development partners in Africa are living up to their obligations in relation to youth employment on the continent. It analyses current responses to youth employment challenges across Africa by the members of t...

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Online Access: Full text (Emerson users only)
Corporate Contributor: International Labour Office
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Geneva : International Labour Office, 2012.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Table of Content; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Boxes; Foreword; Acknowledgment; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Executive Summary; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Objectives and Justification; 1.2 Project Organization; 1.3 Methodology; 2 The Current State of Youth Employment in Africa; Box 2.1: The Youth-Led Revolution in Egypt; 3 Policy Responses to the Youth Employment Crisis in Africa; 3.1 The Adoption of the African Youth Charter; Box 3.2: The African Youth Charter and A Rights-Based Approach in Youth Employment Interventions:; 3.2 African Youth Decade Plan of Action, 2009-2018.
  • 3.3 Financing Youth Employment Programmes: The July 2011 Summit3.4. The Regional Coordination Mechanism (RCM): towards integrated programming on youth employment in Africa; Box 3.3: Aligning Youth Employment Interventions with the Plan of Action forthe AU Decade of Youth Empowerment and Development, 2009-2018; 4 Youth Employment Interventions in Africa; 4.1 Geographic Distribution of Interventions; Figure 4.1: Youth employment projects throughout Africa; Figure 4.2: Youth Employment Interventions in Northern Africa.
  • Table 4.1: List of North African States and selected youth employment indicators and the status of interventions. Figure 4.3: Youth Employment Interventions in West Africa; Table 4.2: List of West African States and selected youth employment indicators and the status of interventions.; Table 4.3: List of East African States with selected youth employment indicators and the number of interventions.; Figure 4.4: Youth Employment Interventions in East Africa; Figure 4.5: Youth Employment Interventions in Southern Africa.
  • Table 4.4: List of Southern African States and selected youth employment indicators and the number of interventions. Table 4.5: List of Central African States and selected youth employment indicators and the number of interventions.; Figure 4.6: Youth Employment Interventions in Central Africa; 4.2 Thematic Areas of Interventions; Box 3.4: Africa Union Youth Volunteer Corps (AUYVC) Programme andYouth Employment in Africa; Figure 4.7: The quantity of youth employment interventions with varying thematic areas; Table 4.6: Thematic areas of the interventions in this mapping.
  • 4.3 Interventions Reaching out to Rural and Urban AreasFigure 4.8: Geographic outreach of interventions; 4.4 Strategic Approaches and Implementation Modalities; 4.5 Partnerships among Implementing Organizations; Box 3.5: Knowledge Products of UNECA on Youth Employment in Africa; Table 4.7: Implementing organizations and partnerships in implementation.; 4.6 Joint Programmes; 4.7 Financing of Interventions; Table 4.8: Source of financing for the interventions; Table 4.9: Analysis of financing per beneficiary; 4.8 Targeted Beneficiaries of the Interventions.