Concerned with the negative consequences of high and rising youth unemployment and subsistence self-employment in sub-Saharan African states, governments have put in place a number of Youth Employment Programs (YEPs), that attempt to improve youth’s labor market outcomes via fostering labor supply and/or labor demand. With support from the Mastercard Foundation, local Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) researchers from seven sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries (Ghana, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, and Uganda), conducted country studies during 2022, comprehensively reviewing these YEPs. Two characteristics of the methods pursued make them attractive to an academic audience. First, the description of YEPs did not stop at the “letter of the legislation”, but it also explored how the programs are effectively implemented. This is an important issue because: (i) there is little knowledge about YEPs in SSA; and (ii) in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) there is usually a large gap between in-form rules and effective implementation. In the country studies, findings from desk reviews of official policy and legal documents, program reports and a local and international literature review, were complemented by the experiential knowledge of key informants and groups of young women, young men, and persons from vulnerable groups.
Project leader: Lucas Ronconi
Project researchers: Ramos Mabugu
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| The Implementation of Youth Employment Programs in Seven Nations in Sub Saharan Africa: A Synthesis of Country Studies | 2024-05-23 | 566.24kB | 0 | 0 |
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