Theme
Closing the Gap; A Decade of Investing in Youth Employability Skills in East Africa
Sub-Theme
Fostering Inclusive Opportunities: Bridging Employability Disparities through Innovation and Entrepreneurship in TVETS & Higher Education Institutions and Out of School Emloyment Initiatives
Objective
Reflecting on the 10 years of the Employability Skills Challenge and transmitting best practices to accelerate on - demand skills transfer to East Africa’s Youth for Sustainable Development.
MISSION
The overarching mission of the East African Employability summit and Uongozi Career awards 2023 is to assess the gains made by stakeholders in the community’s higher education sector and out of school ecosystem to close the employability skills gap established a decade ago. This is in a view to deepen the transformation of the sector to facilitate the transition from academia to industry.
Introduction
Africa is under unprecedented pressure to create jobs for her young population characterized by a median age of 19.7 years. The crisis of the youth bulge has seen the continent's skilled workforce miss out on the competitive job market. On average 60% of the continent's youth are out of work-a phenomenon expected to worsen by 2050 when the continent’s youth population is projected to hit the billion.
SUMMIT AGENDA
AGENDA FOR THE EAST AFRICAN EMPLOYABILITY SUMMIT AND UONGOZI CAREER AWARDS 2023
VENUE
Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA), LRC Auditorium, NAIROBI
DATE
Tuesday 21 Nov 2023,
TIME
9:00 AM
PRE-SUMMIT
Hosted by CUEA LAW FIRM CLUB
21 Nov 2023, 09:00-17:00
Target Audience
The summit is designed for a diverse audience involved in the higher education sector, government, and non-government partners facilitating access to quality education and the end users including recruiters, employers, and industry leaders. The converging interest is solving Africa’s Youth unemployment time bomb with a peculiar gross emphasis on facilitating industrialization and economic growth of the continent.
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