This multi-country study Strengthening Education and Learning Systems to Deliver a 4IR-Ready Workforce builds on findings of the Mastercard Foundation report Secondary Education in Africa: Preparing the Youth for the Future of Work to map progress in strengthening secondary education systems to deliver a workforce prepared for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR).
Africa needs 15 million decent jobs per year to meet the needs of its growing population. Already, 13.4% of the continent’s youth are unemployed.
Research shows that evidence-based policymaking generally results in more effective and responsive policies. But across Africa, lawmakers are faced with a difficult question: what's...
Friday, July 10, 2020 –– By 2050, Africa will be home to 2.5 billion people, almost twice as many as today. In the face...
A review of the local approaches and instruments employed by Development Finance Organizations (DFOs) The African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) is supporting the...
Guinea, a country of roughly 12.4 million people with a bank account penetration rate of 15 percent as of 2017, has made modest gains...
The latest round of Global Findex data show that two particular groups – women and youth – consistently than adult and youth males. Zambia...
Sierra Leone, a country of roughly 7.5 million people with a bank account penetration rate of 20 percent as of 2017, has made modest...
This is a synthesis report on Promoting Women and Youth Financial Inclusion for Entrepreneurship and Job Creation: Comparative Study of Selected Sub-Saharan African Countries....
One-fifth of the global population under the age of 25 now resides in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the world’s youngest region, which is growing at...
This report provides an update of country and sector-level trends in foreign direct investments (FDI) flows and announcements in cross-border investments in Compact with...
Many African countries are considering mainstreaming artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) as a catalyst for inclusive growth. ASM has been touted as having the...
This study provides a comparative analysis of natural resource sector development in eight African countries. The study looks at national policies and strategies together...
This study assesses how African countries mobilize, allocate and manage external resource inflows, as well as how they manage relationships with funders—traditional and non-traditional,...
The Role of Agricultural Supply Chains and Household Constraints in ECOWAS countries At the 19th annual conference of the African Region chapter of the...