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Two studies of young women’s employment challenges in Ghana and Senegal conducted by ACET in 2020 map the barriers and enabling factors faced by young women in the world of […]
Special Series: YOUNG WOMEN AND THE FUTURE WORLD OF WORK PART 5 Recommendations This article is part of the ACET Special Series on Young Women and the Future World of […]
Special Series: YOUNG WOMEN AND THE FUTURE WORLD OF WORK PART 4 Skills Gaps This article is part of the ACET Special Series on Young Women and the Future World […]
Special Series: YOUNG WOMEN AND THE FUTURE WORLD OF WORK PART 3 Enablers This article is part of the ACET Special Series on Young Women and the Future World of […]
Special Series: YOUNG WOMEN AND THE FUTURE WORLD OF WORK PART 2 Barriers This article is part of the ACET Special Series on Young Women and the Future World of […]
Young African women face many significant barriers and constraints in the world of work. Women are heavily overrepresented in the informal sector, even while the employment-to-population ratio for women in Sub-Saharan Africa is relatively high at 57 percent. In Ghana...
Overview – Young women in Ghana and Senegal face significant barriers in the world of work due to social prejudices, a lack of access to the right education and resources, limited opportunities for career advancement, unfavorable workplace conditions, and ineffective...
Senegal has made the empowerment of women an essential pillar of the Plan Senegal Emergent, the unifying framework of public policy. The study covers three sectors: agriculture, tourism and hospitality, and business process outsourcing (BPO).
Young women in Ghana face significant barriers in the world of work due to social prejudices, a lack of access to the right education and resources, limited opportunities for career advancement, unfavorable workplace conditions, and ineffective government policies. This study...
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...
By 2050, with an estimated population of 2.5 billion – one in every 4 people walking this earth will be an African. With half of these people projected to be under 25, we have more people entering the labour force...
On April 19, the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) and the Center for Global Development (CGD) co-hosted a panel discussion between African policymakers, gender experts, and private sector representatives on the need for gender equality to be at the...
Digitalization will transform and revolutionize our economies and societies, and influence the way we work, live, and interact. Working together, the AU and EU can foster a digital partnership that will lead to greater human well-being on both continents.
The African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), on Tuesday July 7,  hosted Abebe Aemro Selassie, Director of the IMF’s Africa Department, along with a distinguished panel of four at a […]
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Gender Equality
Commentary
Breaking the Bias
As ACET launches its new Gender Equality program, our Executive Vice President Mavis Owusu-Gyamfi explains how gender equality and economic transformation are inseparable. How would you assess progress on gender equality in […]
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