With support from IOE – International Organisation of Employers, the AYC will convene 10 representatives from its national consortium in West, East, Central and Southern Africa for a 2-day capacity building workshop on project development and resource mobilisation.

Following the successful hosting of IOE side event on ‘’The Future of Work and Jobs in Africa’’ at 3^rd Pan-African Youth Conference on African Unity and Development held in Banjul in March 2019, the IOE has commit its partnership with AYC to address employment and skills concerns of African youth.

This workshop is organised within the framework of this existing partnership and aimed to achieve the following objectives and outcomes:

Objective:

• Build the capacity of selected national consortium to develop and implement projects within their respective countries successfully.
• To enhance the understanding of the consortiums (roles and expectations) among members in line with the AYC Strategic Plan 2018-2020)
• Encourage national consortium to align their in-country projects, programs and activities to the priority areas of AYC strategic plan,
• Inspire ownership and enhance the understanding of national consortium members of  AYC strategic plan,
• Strengthen the resource mobilisation capacity of national consortium to source the needed financing for their in-country projects and activities,
• Provide peer learning platform allowing national consortium members to share knowledge and experiences relating to implementation of AYC strategy at in-country level,
• Meet IOE general employers’ and discuss how to ensure sustainability of in-country projects and activities of national consortium through partnerships at national, regional and continental levels,
• Enhance the advocacy, communication and networking skills of selected national consortium to advocate, communicate and work together on developmental challenges facing their countries and the continent.

Outcomes:

• Participants are equipped with tools needed to develop and manage their in-country projects and activities effectively,
• Increased level of knowledge and awareness of the AYC, its vision and the strategic plan 2018 – 2020 among the national consortium members,
• Increased capabilities of the members to formulate, implement, monitor and evaluate their in-country projects and activities independently,
• In-country projects/activities of participating national consortium are aligned to the priority areas of AYC strategic plan 2018-2020,
• Participants acquired hands-on experience skills on project development and management, and have the ability to initiate and mobilise resources for their in-country projects/activities,
• Build synergies with IOE general employers’ and possible areas of collaboration explored,
• Advocacy, communication and network skills of participants are enhanced.

The workshop will take place at Sunbird Capital Hotel in Lilongwe, Malawi in parallel with 43rd Annual Conference of IOE members from East, Southern and Central Africa. Our participants will take part in IOE conference on the 3-4 June and join the AYC workshop on 4-5 June.

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