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NEPAD and FAO launch rural youth project at the 11th CAADP Partnership Platform 25 March 2015, Johannesburg - The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), today launched a 4-year project that aims to create decent employment opportunities for young women and men in rural areas, through the development of rural enterprises in sustainable agriculture and agribusiness along strategic value chains. The USD$ 4 million project is funded by the African Solidarity Trust Fund.

The three EU focal sectors for development cooperation with Cambodia selected for the period 2014-2020 are: Agriculture/Rural Development, Education/Skills and Good Governance. Tuesday, 16 December, 2014 Multiannual Indicative Programme Cambodia 2014-2020 Commission Decision - MIP - Cambodia - 2014-2020

""Youth employment and hunger are two key issues that have been impacted by the economic crisis. This is particularly true for youth living in developing countries, representing 85% of the world youth. In an attempt to address these issues, the Global Youth Innovation Network, GYIN, has initiated its second Global Youth Summit called the 2016 Youth Agribusiness, Leadership, and Entrepreneurship Summit on Innovation (YALESI 2016). The summit will prioritise young people's needs, considering their developmental needs, and including underserved populations, such as girls, to an effective and inclusive employment strategy."

Development institutions are learning new ways to share knowledge. The traditional hierarchical model of training, in which information is passed down from teacher to student, or donor to recipient, is not always the most effective. Instead, partnerships are emerging through which experiences can be shared.

125 Kenyan curriculum developers and 60 authors and publishers have come together from 24 to 27 November in Nairobi to discuss curriculum reforms in their country. The workshop aimed at sharing an inter-regional comparative perspective on curriculum trends, issues and strategies with a focus on competency-based approaches. The long-term objective of the workshop is to inform curriculum reform/review processes and to align these with the national development plan: Kenya Vision 2030."

Brief description of the Assignment: The objective of this assignment is to support the operationalization of the Jobs for Youth in Africa Strategy, elaborated as a response to Africa's youth unemployment and underemployment crisis. Specific objectives include the development of a strong pipeline of projects under the umbrella of the Bank's Job creation initiative for at least 15 Bank's Regional Member Countries. The scoping exercises aims to learn lessons on best and scalable practices at country level. The junior consultant will also support other activities which has a focus on job creation. The junior consultant will work closely with the Department for Human and Social Development and will further help coordinate at Bank wide level and across the Bank's task force on 'Jobs for Youth'

"On April 25-26, the AYA Forum is being organised by the African Development Bank (AfDB), in collaboration with Partners in GFAR: CTA, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the African Agribusiness Incubation Network (AAIN). About 250 young agripreneurs from across Africa, as well as institutional and business partners, are expected to attend. As a pre-event to the AYA Forum, CTA will run, on, a workshop entitled Accelerating Youth Agriculture Entrepreneurship Using ICTs. This workshop is designed for partners including development organisations, venture capitalists, young start-up companies, farmer organisations and representatives of national entrepreneurship programmes."

IDRC and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) are funding a new programme on climate change adaptation. The Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) began in 2012 and will run until 2019. CARIAA invites submissions of joint concept notes for the establishment of research consortia in three climate change hot spots: semi-arid regions, deltas, and glacier and snowpack dependent river basins. Find out more at http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Programs/Agriculture_and_the_Environment/CARIAA/Pages/default.aspx "

"Thanks to Abudala Napuru from FAO for these photos showing training and development in commercial monosex tilapia production at Richard Toll, Senegal Nov 2012- Jan 2013"

"The report provides an assessment of prospects for the coming decade of national, regional and global agricultural commodity markets. It predicts that expansion of agricultural production is likely to slow at least in the medium term with limited slower area expansion and slower productivity growth, but supply should keep pace with demand such that prices are expected to remain relatively high. In this context, it is anticipated that measures to reduce food loss and waste will be important in meeting rising demand and for increasing productivity. Agricultural trade is expected to increase and developing countries could benefit."

The United States Agency for International Development's Maximizing Agricultural Revenue through Knowledge, Enterprise Development and Trade Project promotes more sustainable and efficient use of aquaculture and fishery resources in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region with an emphasis on the Lower Mekong Initiative countries.

"Poor and rich countries alike must recognise that inequality goes beyond income, encompassing health, education and more"

"ANAFE is planning a workshop on development of learning materials to be held on on 9 - 13 December 2013 in Cote D'Ivoire. The deadline for applications is set for 17 November 2013. While we are still accepting applications, we would like to open an electronic discussion for those interested in working on specific subject areas. This will enable us constitute teams to work on different chapters depending on their interests and/or expertise."

"The UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre in collaboration with the National Board for Technical Education, Centre of Excellence in TVET (NBTE), organized a Regional Forum on Advancing TVET for Youth Employability and Sustainable Development from 17 to 18 September 2013 in Abuja, Nigeria. The meeting was organized in the context of a series of forums that UNESCO-UNEVOC is organizing as a response to the Shanghai Consensus recommendations and the outcomes of the UNEVOC International Forum (November 2012). The two-day forum aimed at sharing and discussing Promising Practices in the areas of Greening TVET (GTVET) and Youth and Skills implemented by UNEVOC Centres and other institutions in the region, as well as strengthening cooperation between UNEVOC Centres in Africa and supporting the consolidation and expansion of the Network."

En dépit de plus de vingt années de croissance économique soutenue, de nombreux pays d'Afrique subsaharienne n'affichent pas encore les progrès escomptés en matière d'amélioration... Cet article Le défi africain : une croissance créatrice d'emploi et bénéficiant aux pauvres est apparu en premier sur Ideas for development.

"This study was produced on behalf of the African Union Observatory for the 2014 Conference of Ministers of Education of the African Union (COMEDAF) meeting by a team from the ADEA Working Group on Education Management and Policy Support and the SADC Secretariat. The team is led by Angela Arnott (Team Leader) together with Chemwi Mutiwanyuka as key writer and Brighton Mutasa and Jacqueline Makovah responsible for data production and quality assurance respectively. Publication: au_outlook_report_sadc_english_version_2014_web.pdf"

"We, at GFAR and CGIAR, are committed to integrate, stimulate and mentor the involvement of youth in all of our collective programs. At GCARD3, the Third Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development, we are taking any opportunity to live up to that commitment. We want to use the upcoming GCARD3 global event to pilot a number of innovative projects and approaches. One of these projects is "YAP", the Youth Agripreneurs Project. "YAP" is a pilot project targeting young agricultural entrepreneurs or "agripreneurs"."

"Youth in agriculture has been high on the development agenda. While many policies and programs are being implemented that should bring youth back to work in agriculture, they are often underpinned by assumptions that could undermine the effective augmentation of food security and employment. To start the discussion by shedding some light on the do's and don'ts when working with youth, two meetings were organized on youth inclusiveness in agricultural transformation. "

"To continue to feed a growing world population, we need to increase global food production. This appears though at odds with a number of seemingly insurmountable environmental and socio-economic challenges. This is particularly true for Africa, a region hit most strongly by climate change and yield gaps against a backdrop of poverty, migration and conflicts. How thus can we innovate agriculture and drive sustainable intensification?"