4 November 2024 | 15:00-16:30 CET
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Presenters
Vice-President, Tech Dev
Advisor, GIZ
Discussants
Managing Director, Native Feeds, Botswana
Market Systems Finance Officer -Center 4 AgLed Growth- Resilience, Environment & Food Security Bureau, USAID
Nutrition and Food Systems Officer, FAO
With Africa’s rapidly growing youth population, creating sustainable jobs has become a key priority in development cooperation. Development projects are increasingly adopting comprehensive and integrated approaches to youth employment for both urban and rural areas. Many projects tap into the opportunities in agrifood economies to create jobs – both wage and self-employed, promote entrepreneurship and skills development and help young people find their best match in different segments of the agri-food value chain.
The webinar, organized by the Donor Platform's Thematic Working Group on Rural Youth Employment (TWG RYE), will showcase experiences from two large projects that aimed at promoting more and better jobs for youth in the broader agrifood system in Africa. Lessons learned and proven tools to support agri-preneurs and micro and small enterprises, particularly in the downstream activities (processing and trading) of the agrifood sector, will be the main focus. The panel will also discuss the role of different stakeholders in ensuring a youth-inclusive food system transformation.
| Agenda | |
|---|---|
| 15:00 - 15:05 | Welcome and introduction Ji-Yeun Rim, TWG RYE Co-Chair Genna Tesdall, Director, Young Professionals for Agricultural Development (YPARD), (Moderator) |
| 15:05 - 15:35 | Lessons from global projects
Jean-Marc Delort, Vice-President, Tech Dev – Support to the development of agri-business microenterprises in West Africa. Lessons learned from the HUB-IIT project. |
| 15:35 – 16:05 | Discussion on policy implications
Tlotlo Neo Phuduhudu, Managing Director, Native Feeds, Botswana |
| 16:05 – 16:25 | Q&A/Open discussion |
| 16:25 – 16:30 | Wrap-up and Closing
Elisenda Estruch-Puertas, TWG RYE Co-Chair |
