New PEP-Mastercard Foundation Partnership to Provide Evidence for Policy Reform that Drives Increased Youth Employment in Africa
Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) announced a new three-year research and policy partnership with the Mastercard Foundation that will identify what works to accelerate youth employment in Africa. The initiative will provide evidence to inform the design and implementation of a youth employment policy in 10 African countries. It will contribute to the Mastercard Foundation’s […]
Working Women, And Especially Single Moms, Are Hit Hard By Coronavirus Downturn
Before she was laid off from her bartending job in Charleston, South Carolina, Shana Swain used to spend her nights serving food and mixing Manhattans and Cosmopolitans. Now Swain, 40, spends her evenings having dinner with her girls, age 5 and 8, and studying for her real estate license, which she hopes will provide more […]
African Development Bank Helps To Create 35,000 Jobs In Agricultural SMEs
Since 2016, the African Development Bank has committed $1.7 million to the Project to Support the Employability and Integration of Young People in Growth Sectors (PAEIJ-SP) in Togo, which has helped create 35,000 jobs in agricultural SMEs. When Agrokom and Agricultural Growth Junction of Togo (JCAT) launched in the Togolese capital of Lomé in 2011, […]
Gender Ministry Creates Jobs For 92 Rural People In Namibia
In the quest to create employment and create self-reliance, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare created jobs for 92 rural people, predominantly women, in Omusati and Oshikoto regions. The ministry donated equipment towards 44 income generating activities in the two regions to a tune of over N$900 000. Twenty-five (25) projects in Omusati […]
Cambodians Sue US And Thai Firms Over Trafficking And Forced Labour Claims
Cambodian villagers have filed a lawsuit against four companies that supply American supermarkets, claiming they were trafficked to work under slavery-like conditions in a Thai seafood factory that exports to the US. The civil lawsuit, filed in June in a California federal court, accuses the US and Thai firms of knowingly profiting from the villagers’ […]
UK Not Doing Enough For Conflict-Stricken Northern Nigeria, MPs Warn
Britain is not doing enough to help northern Nigeria, where millions of people have had their lives ruined by the Islamic militant group Boko Haram. The gap between Nigeria’s poor and conflict-stricken north and more prosperous south could widen, a report by the international development committee said (pdf). Nigeria went through its first democratic transfer […]
Surge In Gold Prices Brings No Change In Fortune For Madagascar’s Miners
A drumming sound reverberates across the bridge and over the valley: the gold panners are hard at work. Dotted along the edges of a river bed are hundreds of people, rhythmically banging wooden poles into the red earth. They are gold miners “sampling” the dry soil for the precious metal. Crouched alongside them are other […]
Solar Sister Lights Entrepreneurial Spirit To Improve Women’s Lives In Uganda
Harriet Nabukwasi is saving up. Having seen people claim her neighbour’s land, she is determined hers will not go the same way. The only way to protect the half-acre site in Mudokori village in Tororo, eastern Uganda, is to register the land and acquire a title. “This land is our life,” says Nabukwasi, 31, who […]
Africa’s Urbanisation ‘Megatrend’ Needs To Deliver Growth, Says Report
More than half of all Africans are expected to live in cities by 2050, so policymakers must ensure this “megatrend” acts as a catalyst for development and growth, and does not result in millions of people eking out precarious existences in slums, according to the latest African Economic Outlook. The study (pdf), produced by the […]
Myanmar Women Put In Danger By Ban On Maids Working Overseas
Van Biak had only been away from her family in Leilet in north-west Myanmar for two weeks, but her mother was in tears as they embraced on the veranda. Biak and her older sister, Van Hnem, left to find work as maids in Singapore with few job opportunities in their remote village in Chin state, […]
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