News about employment and job creation
- Tsola Barrow
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Africa’s next growth story will be defined less by how many companies start and more by how many build systems that last. The future belongs to firms that endure by enabling the ecosystems around them to thrive. Every decision should leave something standing: stronger supply chains, stronger communities, stronger institutions.
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- The Independent
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It’s not that demand is low for clean power — the smallest solar systems for homes have exploded in popularity and created jobs — but big developers haven’t been able to overcome Nigeria’s reputation as a risky place to do business. It’s a problem across sub-Saharan Africa, where 83% of the people in the world who lack electricity live.
- Just Transition Africa
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Mainstream thinking about ‘development’ commonly presumes all societies of the world are moving along the same track, with some countries in the lead and many others — particularly African countries — lagging behind with the hope and ambition of eventually ‘catching up’.
- Ifeoma Malo and Gift Nwamadu
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How can green technologies transform youth employment in Africa? This paper examines the transformative potential of green technologies in addressing youth unemployment.
- IRENA
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Women face many challenges as entrepreneurs in the DRE sector. This is despite their great potential to drive innovation and foster sustainable development, particularly as entrepreneurs, given the large number and proportion of women working in sectors that could benefit from DRE technologies, including agriculture and food production.
- International Labour Organization
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The ILO STRENGTHEN2 project is conducting employment impact assessments of investments in sub-Saharan Africa to promote the creation of more and better jobs. This report presents an employment impact assessment (EmpIA) of the second phase of the Green Mini-Grid Facility Programme in Kenya.
- Kenneth Kazibwe
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A target of skilling at least 300 female middle level managers drawn from different solar companies in Uganda will be meet before end of year, according to the sub sector highlights.
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- UNDP
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Northwest Nigeria, a region rich in cultural heritage and natural resources, faces significant challenges related to unemployment, energy access, and environmental degradation.
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- IOL
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Development of utility-scale plants is hugely manual labour-intensive, which means that, in the short term at least, there is potential for the creation of thousands of jobs. However, this is not a sustainable solution for unemployment or economic growth, as the jobs are temporary in nature.
- Kenneth Kazibwe
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The outcomes of the on going census enumeration will be very vital in opening up data based interventions of skilling millions of Ugandan youth.