About ASPYEE

The African Skills Portal for Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship (ASPYEE) is a continental platform connecting practitioners and policymakers to share, collaborate, and engage. The portal promotes innovative, African-owned solutions drawn from field experience and research. By sharing best practices, successes, and lessons learned, ASPYEE builds an evidence-based repository to advance the African Union’s agenda on skills and employment.

ASPYEE addresses the critical challenge of youth unemployment and underemployment. Africa has the youngest population in the world, with more than 400 million people between the ages of 15 and 35. Therefore, ensuring access to quality education, relevant training, decent jobs, and self-employment is essential for the continent's sustainable socio-political and economic development.


Our Mission

To serve as a living platform designed to enable access to knowledge resources and replicable good practices, map and visualise  critical skills data across countries and sectors, facilitate collaboration across stakeholders, and power responsive, inclusive and gender-aware skills strategies.

Our Objectives

  • Promote evidence-informed skills development policies across Africa
  • Support Member States with tools to track TVET, employment, and skills mobility
  • Connect actors across education, industry, and policymaking

An initiative of the African Union Commission & AUDA-NEPAD

The African Union Commission’s (AUC) Continental Technical and Vocational Education and Training (CTVET) Strategy has been a continental roadmap to build an African workforce equipped with the skills, innovation and values to drive Agenda 2063. From strengthening technical education and employability to harmonising systems for mobility and cooperation, the CTVET Strategy has shaped the way Africa prepares its people for the future.

Now in its tenth year, ASPYEE is growing into a central hub for monitoring and collaboration. It aligns with the Continental TVET Strategy, the AfCFTA, and the Energize Africa initiative, driving partnerships that prepare Africa’s youth for the future of work.

The Benchmark for Education Africa

The Continental Technical and Vocational Education and Training (CTVET) Strategy is a continental roadmap to build an African workforce equipped with the skills, innovation and values to drive Agenda 2063. From strengthening technical education and employability to harmonising systems for mobility and cooperation, the CTVET Strategy has shaped the way Africa prepares its people for the future.

Who We Are

The African Skills Portal for Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship (ASPYEE) is a continental knowledge sharing platform which enables practitioners and policy makers across the African continent to share, collaborate engage with each other. This website provides a platform to promote African-owned, innovative approaches derived from experience from the field and research. Reflecting on African good practice, successes and lessons learnt from the field is fundamental to grow an evidence-based knowledge repository to further the African Union’s agenda on skills and employment.

ASPYEE exists within the context of the growing problem of youth unemployment and underemployment which is a major concern for African Governments. This challenge must be seen in a context where the Continent has the youngest population in the world, with more than 400 million young people aged between the ages of 15 to 35 years. Given this scenario access to quality, relevant and appropriate education and training, decent jobs and self-employment, are critical to promote sustainable socio, political and economy development.

ASPYEE forms part of the SIFA programme, which is implemented by the African Union Commission (AUC) and African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD). SIFA promotes strategies and processes aimed at enhancing youth skills development, decent employment, and self-employment. The SIFA project further has 3 components; the SIFA Finance Facility, the ATVET For Women component and the SIFA Technical component which includes work on Skills Anticipation, African Continental Qualification Frameworks, Private sector engagement and various dialogue platforms. These components contribute to the content of this website.

Key Themes

The portal provides a unique continental platform that enables knowledge generation, through co-creation processes. Both, policy and practice in key thematic and intervention areas, are identified in the Continental TVET Strategy.

   

  • Anticipating skills for changing labour markets.
  • TVET Qualification Frameworks & Legislation.
  • TVET Delivery & Implementation Modalities.
  • Private Sector Engagement.

ASPYEE is a continental knowledge platform developed by the African Union Commission (AUC) and African Union Development Agency-NEPAD (AUDA-NEPAD), designed to advance skills development, youth employment, and entrepreneurship in Africa, serving as both a repository of best practices and a central hub for knowledge sharing, responding directly to the African Union's call for innovative approaches under the broader Energize Africa framework.