Brief
Getting Africa’s youth working
Taking a systems approach to create more & better jobs for young people in sub-Saharan Africa
Short description
This research brief looks at characteristics of labour markets in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and draws on lessons from programmes that use a market systems approach to make these markets work better for young people. The brief provides a synthesis of key findings for those looking to take a systemic approach to working with youth and labour markets in SSA or those more broadly engaged with the challenge of decent work for young people. It draws on learnings from six market systems programmes. In doing so, it builds on existing research and compares multiple projects across countries and continents to help development practitioners understand how they can more effectively use a market systems approach to create more and better jobs for Africa’s youth.See also:
- Can we create better jobs in Africa's booming construction sector ? Looking to market systems analysis to point us in the right direction
- Accelerating tourism’s impact on jobs
- Fail, recalibrate, adapt, achieve: how Yapasa used the market systems approach to create opportunities for Zambia's rural youth