EVENT: African Forum on Youth Skills & Enterprise in the Digital Age

DATE: 15^th – 16^th  November 2017

LOCATION: Rabat, Kingdom of Morocco

THEME: "Harnessing Demographic Dividend through Investments in the Youth"

This forum is an activity of the CESA-ICT in #Education Cluster

Co-organized by: AUC-HRST, GESCI, ADEA, ISESCO, UNICEF, JP-IK

Sponsors: IFIC-AUF, ITWORX

Expected Outcomes

1. Developing a shared and commanding understanding of how digital technologies can be leveraged for skilling the youth and empowering them to create entreprise in the digital era and lead the socio-economic transformation of their communities.
2. Sharing knowledge, experiences, good practices and lessons learnt to better inform policies and programmes aiming at skilling the youth and entreprise creation in the digital age.
3. Raising awareness on the necessity to build strong skill sets and volunteer political commitment to explore innovative approaches for leveraging digital technologies for youth skilling and entreprise creation.
4. Promoting youth digital skills and entreprise high level policy dialogue platform and network that includes the public sector (ministries, agencies and institutions in charge of vocational education and youth, Regional Economic Communities - RECs); development cooperation agencies and international organizations; private sector; civil society and youth organizations. Such a policy platform and network are necessary for the development of the ecosystem that will foster partnerships to advance policy and strategy development and implementation.
5. Sharing Youth’s digital skills development and entreprise creation strategies to help address youth unemployment and bridging the skills gap within Africa by identifying game-changing experiences and lessons learnt.
6. Creating a platform for the promotion of the competitiveness and attractiveness of TVET sectors across Africa by identifying innovative and creative skills through an “African creative skills competition”.

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