Planning for tomorrow's workforce: is Africa ready?
52nd Session of the Economic Commission for Africa
Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development
Side-event
Planning for tomorrow 's workforce: is Africa ready?
52nd Session of the Economic Commission for Africa
The objective of this dialogue is to create space for critical thinking on the relevance of current African education and training systems in an evolving, digital and knowledge based economy; it will encourage exchanges of views from different outlooks and opportunities for Africa to respond to the future of work.
Structural transformation in Africa’s economies remains the highest priority, and industrialization is the top strategy for achieving it in practice. Achieving the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals will demand a major re-design of growth strategies across the continent. Africa though being a latecomer to industrialization, can seize this big opportunity in adopting alternative economic pathways to industrialization...
At the end of the course, participants will have a clear understanding of the following:
At the end of the course, participants will have an enhanced understanding of the role of urbanization in Africa’s transformation, in line with Agenda 2063 and the SDGs.
Specifically, participants will be able to:
At the end of the course, participants will have a clear understanding of the following:
At the end of the course, participants will be able to: