3ci Senior Fellow Edward Jackson’s organization, E.T. Jackson and Associates, recently collaborated with the MasterCard Foundation to produce Youth at Work: Building Economic Opportunities for Young People in Africa, a thematic review outlining MasterCard Foundation’s skills training projects for young people in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this report, the MasterCard Foundation highlights its key learnings, including:
- The effectiveness of holistic models that build both “hard” and “soft” skills;
- The importance of understanding which sectors of the economy have the most potential for young people;
- The need to find sustainable and cost-effective ways to deliver more of these programs at a much larger scale; and
- The need to elevate the voices and experiences of young people in the design and delivery of programs that affect them.
To read more, download the publication here.