Date: Thursday, 11 June 2026
Time: 1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. EAT (EAT)
Venue: Room CR2, UN Conference Centre, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
As Africa has a significant number of youths not in employment, education, or training (NEET) - approximately 53 million in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2023, the disproportionate number of whom were women according to the ILO, the continent needs to urgently create economic opportunities for its youth. High-growth entrepreneurship, which is innovation-driven, has significant potential to promote the development of productive and quality enterprises that create jobs. The continent’s main challenge is how to close the gap between young people’s ambition and adequate ecosystem support. It is not to create more enterprises but to build better ones: high growth-oriented enterprises that are innovative, have the potential to scale, and create productive and formal jobs.
Building on the discussions and insights emerging from the “Promoting High-Growth Youth Entrepreneurship for Jobs in Africa” held on 17 March 2026, hosted by the @UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Africa Development Impact Forum (ADIF), the thematic plenary session aims to deepen evidence-based dialogue on the “how” building better youth-oriented enterprises that are innovative, have the potential to scale and create productive and formal jobs create jobs in Africa.
Registration: https://lnkd.in/eBZJHPK9