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While it is too early to predict the full impact of COVID-19 on Africa, it is clear that there are both causes for concern and opportunities for positive change. Beyond its health impacts, the pandemic is already having severe socioeconomic consequences, including in terms of increased unemployment, loss of income, and wealth depletion. At the same time, it has demonstrated the increasing importance of digital technology worldwide to responding effectively to crises and planning for recovery. This global crisis therefore also has the potential to accelerate the continent’s digital transformation and to create decent and resilient digital jobs in Africa.
The socioeconomic effects of pandemic are hitting other people faster and harder than other age groups. African young people face multiple clashes, adding interruptions to education, education and learning at work; Employment and loss of source of income due to layoffs and reductions of hours of operation; and greater difficulties in locating intelligent quality work. They are also more vulnerable due to upper poverty rates among other young people, and because they are overrepresented in the less protected bureaucracy of paintings and in maximum sectors in threat of interruption due to COVID-19. Young women face a double development load in the management of paid and unpaid paintings and family paintings due to generalized school closures. Other vulnerable and marginalized young people, other people, such as other young people with disabilities or young refugees or displaced other people, face more demanding situations in addition to the barriers they face to access learning and opportunities for decent paintings.
Despite its associated challenges, the crisis also represents an opportunity for transformative change. Young people are Africa’s most important source of human capital and driver of development. The success of countries’ response to this crisis, the sustainability of their recovery, and the achievement of their long-term development goals will depend on skilled and healthy young people contributing their labour, ideas and expertise.
The pandemic has shown that virtual generation is more vital for every economy, so foresight has a positive effect on having an effect on the demand, source and intermediation of the strength of paints if they are well implemented even before the crisis estimates that 230 million virtual jobs deserve to be created in Africa by 2030, But that do fill them, 650 million odds of further education also deserve to be created. The on-premise online retail and virtual industry was already in Africa before the crisis, and European and other markets are also opening up to virtually provided facilities. These global and regional developments may lead to greater odds for young Africans to innovate, have interaction in e-commerce, or paint virtual jobs that serve intra-African and foreign markets.
Now, more than ever, it is very important to invest in the employment of other young people and the progression of virtual skills to increase and take credit for Africa’s virtual transformation to respond well to the most demanding situations posed through Covid-19 and make sure that the recovery is inclusive and sustainable in the long term. Oilo and ITU, with the help of the AU, introduced a programme with a continental scope to create decent homework and skills for other young people in Africa’s virtual economy. Learn more here.
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The resilience of the Global Nu Net Vanguard designed for communities remain connected and to prepare and prepare for the medium and long term recovery of COVID19.
African practices examples include:
Co-lided through the IUE, the digital skills for Crusade are aimed Their virtual skills is a strategy of winning: it addresses the skills gap by expanding the employability of young people, creating quality jobs and provoking innovation in all sectors of the virtual economy. The Crusade is a component of the global initiative on decent works for young people.
The African Girls Can Code Initiative (AGCCI), co-led by ITU, UN Women Ethiopia and the AUC, aims to close the digital gender gap in Africa by equipping young girls with digital literacy, coding, and personal development skills.
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