This event will be an opportunity to present the joint, ECA – Oxford Economics Africa report on “Human Capital and Productive Employment Creation: Addressing Africa's Skills Gap,” and discuss its main recommendations for African countries.
With a focus on the experiences of Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, South Africa, Rwanda and Zambia, this report shows that the demand for specific skills is both a product of the size of the sectors requiring those skills, and a factor in determining the size of these sectors.
To ensure African countries benefit from the demographic dividend, the report provides recommendations for African governments to foster the development of strategic, poverty reducing, higher value added and job rich sectors while ensuring strategic skills are widespread among their workforces.
The webinar on “Reducing Africa's Skills Gap” is being organized as part of the ECA Dialogue Series held across Africa in preparation for the upcoming 55th Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development scheduled on 15-21 March 2023 in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) and online, under the theme “Fostering recovery and transformation in Africa to reduce inequalities and vulnerabilities”
EVENT: Webinar on “Reducing Africa's Skills Gap”
DATE & TIME: Monday 6 March 2023, from 10 :00 am to 11:30 Rabat time, 12:00 to 14:00 pm Addis Ababa time.
PLACE: Online. Please click here to register for this event
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UJnqjnmcSSSXhlKGo-a59w
LANGUAGES: The discussions will be simultaneously translated into English, French and Arabic.
For more information about this event, please send an email to filali-ansary@un.org and aclaire@oxfordeconomics.com