Institution: Center for Port and Logistics Training (CFMPL)

Institution: Kasama Community Technical College

In South Africa today approximately half of our young people are unemployed due to educational challenges at poor-performing schools, particularly in the subjects of Maths and Science, and many high school students today who attend under-resourced schools in disadvantaged areas, struggle to achieve a Bachelor-level pass rate (the minimum requirement for admission to tertiary studies) in matric.

The Go for Gold programmes seek to address these deficiencies at various levels from education to employment; ensuring all gaps are addressed and opportunitie s taken.

The immediate and emerging labour market in Kenya and the East African Region at large is experiencing basic level skills shortages in new economy sectors. Ironically, the country and the region experience a youth bulge, which, however, is characterised by high levels of unemployment.

CAP-Youth Empowerment Institute Kenya (YEI) is a non-government organization started in 2011 committed, to train youth out of school in job entry level skills.

MUVA’titude project focuses on the core problem that young women in Mozambique often lack the self-confidence they need to complete technical training and find a job. Skills training and placement programs currently address the hard skills and knowledge that young women need for work, without taking into account the internal power that young women need to pursue decent work and be successful at it.

Our Approach

Batonga aims to harness the economic potential of the most marginalized female youth, and equipping adolescent girls with skills to transform their economic potential into economic power. The mission is to equip girls with the knowledge and skills they need to become agents of change in their communities and in their own lives. Batonga strives to go “beyond the paved road,” and target those girls who are “invisible” or typically left out of traditional education and development initiatives.

Our Approach

The World Health Organisation (WHO) places the prevalence of disabilities in Zambia at 15%, asserting that 2 million women and men have some form of disability. . However, the Government official data, obtained from the 2010 national census, places the prevalence at 2% (CSO, 2010). It can be deduced from the remarkable differences in statistics that possibly the structure of Government statistical records does not include some forms of disabilities.

The African Union in its report Strategy to Revitalise Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Africa identifies linkage of TVET to the labour market and development of business management and entrepreneurship skills in the vocational training programmes as key strategic issues that need to be addressed.

In Cameroon, 70% of population is under 30 and young people account for more than 2/3 of the population but almost 60% of all unemployed. The potential is however enormous, young people are motivated but without fields of action.

Our commitment is to guide these young people and women on the way of digital entrepreneurship, because digital and new technologies have endless opportunities for decent and sustainable jobs, but above all the possibility for these young people and women to use technology to innovate and build business to creatively solve social problems.