This joint report by Economic Commission for Africa and NKC African Economics (an Oxford Economics company) examines how Africa can facilitate job creation, as the region initiates its recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Report on “Best Practices in Job Creation, Lessons from Africa analyses 34 employment initiatives carried out in 15 African countries, revealing a number of approaches and areas of focus that tend to be more successful and which could therefore be considered as best practice in employment creation.
These successful approaches and areas of focus include partnerships, skills development, youth employment, investment promotion and improved access to credit and finance.
Africa presently has the world’s largest youth population, with more than 70% of its population aged under 35 and some of the highest unemployment rates in the world.