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#FoW4Youth FoW4AfricanYouth.org WELCOME NOTES Deborah Greenfield Sangheon Lee Manuel Sager Deputy Director-General Director of EMPLOYMENT Director-General for Policy, ILO Department, ILO SDC Join the conversation on Twitter #FoW4Youth

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FoW4AfricanYouth.org #FoW4Youth

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Sangheon Lee

Director of EMPLOYMENT Department, ILO

Manuel Sager

Director-General SDC

WELCOME NOTES

Deborah Greenfield

Deputy Director-General for Policy, ILO

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Join the conversation on Twitter

#FoW4Youth

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SETTING THE SCENE

Niall O’Higgins

Senior Research Specialist, EMPLOYMENT Department ILO

Sarah Akwei-Marfo

Global Initiative on Decent Employment EMPLOYMENT Department ILO

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A CHANGING WORLD OF WORK

Maria Marta Travieso

NORMES Department ILO

Maria Prieto

EMPLOYMENT Department ILO

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https://www.ilo.org/infostories/en-GB/Campaigns/future-work/global-commission#seizing

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DECENT EMPLOYMENT FOR YOUTH IN AFRICA

Moustapha Kamal Gueye Coordinator, Green Jobs ENTERPRISE Department ILO Valeria Esquivel, Employment Policies and Gender Specialist, EMPLOYMENT Department, ILO Susana Puerto Senior Youth Employment Specialist, EMPLOYMENT Department, ILO Juan Chacaltana Senior Employment Specialist EMPLOYMENT Department ILO

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BREAK 10:30 – 11:00 h

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MARKET PLACE

Large scale job creation in Nigeria & South Africa Ukinebo Dare, Head of EdoJobs Tashmia Ismail-Saville, CEO, Yes4youth Technologies

Dr. Eric Otenyo, Professor, Northern

Arizona University Digitalization and Internet Evelyn Namara, Global Community Engagement Manager, Internet Society Green Jobs for African Youth Callie Ham, ILO

11.00-12.30

Social Entrepreneurship Lynsey Ferrell, Change Leader, Ashoka Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth- through a Gender lens Susana Puerto, ILO Evolution of employment services Jacqui Ford, CEO, Federation of African Professional Staffing Organization (APSO) Vocational and skills development Roeland Monasch, CEO, Aflatoun International

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LUNCH 12:30 – 14:00h

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https://youtu.be/sQOti8RncGk

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VOICES FROM THE YOUNG AFRICAN WORKFORCE

Wala Kasmi

Founder and CEO Youth Decides Tunisia

Solomon King

Founder Fundi Bots Uganda

Rotimi Olawale

Founder and CEO JR Farms Nigeria

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Wala Kasmi

Founder and CEO, Youth Decides, Tunisia

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Solomon King

Founder, Fundi Bots, Uganda

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Solomon King

Founder, Fundi Bots, Uganda

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Rotimi Olawale

Founder and CEO, JR Farms, Nigeria

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Rotimi Olawale

Founder and CEO, JR Farms, Nigeria

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KEY NOTE

Gilles Yabi Founder WATHI

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15.30 -16.45 (3x25’)

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What motivates us as a community of practitioners to engage in this field? What is most promising from what we have heard today and in which direction should our efforts go? What are the concrete next steps that we need to take?

1 2 3 WORLD CAFE QUESTIONS

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CLOSING REMARKS

Thomas Gass

Vice-Director and Head of the South Cooperation Department SDC, Ambassador

Sukti Dasgupta

Branch Chief EMPLAB, EMPLOYMENT Department, ILO

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FoW4AfricanYouth.org #FoW4Youth