{"id":2283,"date":"2019-08-10T00:34:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T00:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2019-08-10T00:34:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T00:34:55","slug":"ayc-webinar-on-preparing-youth-for-the-future-of-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/2019\/08\/10\/ayc-webinar-on-preparing-youth-for-the-future-of-work\/","title":{"rendered":"AYC Webinar on Preparing Youth for the Future of Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"African Youth Commission (opens in a new tab)\">African Youth Commission<\/a> in collaboration with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Plan International Regional Hub, Plan RESA Country Offices (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/plan-international.org\/girls-get-equal\/activist-hub?utm_source=Plan%20external%20email%20signatures&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Signatures\" target=\"_blank\">Plan International Regional Hub, Plan RESA Country Offices<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Africa Youth Trust (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/africayouthtrust.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Africa Youth Trust<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Office of the African Union Envoy on Youth (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/auyouthenvoy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Office of the African Union Envoy on Youth<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"International Organisation of Employers  (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ioe-emp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Organisation of Employers<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Forum for African Women Educationalists (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/fawe.org\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forum for African Women Educationalists<\/a> and other partners, as part of activities marking the International Youth Day 2019, jointly organised Twitter Chat and Webinar on <strong>&#8216;Preparing Youth for Future of Work&#8217;<\/strong> with particular focus on inclusion&nbsp;of girl and young women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/05c44e00-0091-4215-980d-0277da194a3a-300x232.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2291\" width=\"496\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/05c44e00-0091-4215-980d-0277da194a3a-300x232.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/05c44e00-0091-4215-980d-0277da194a3a-1024x791.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/05c44e00-0091-4215-980d-0277da194a3a-768x593.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/05c44e00-0091-4215-980d-0277da194a3a.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><figcaption>Webinar Panelist <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The theme for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"2019 International Youth Day (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/development\/desa\/youth\/news\/2019\/04\/iyd-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">2019 International Youth Day<\/a> is <strong>&#8221;Transforming&nbsp;Education&#8221;<\/strong>. In the webinar will seek to: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Spotlight Young \u2018Education Transformers\u2019 innovations\nacross the region <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Highlight partnership opportunities between youth-led\nnetworks, governments, AU\/UN agencies and other education stakeholders to transform\neducation <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Provide a platform for African youth to voice their demands to policy makers as well as highlight their roles and contributions in transforming education to Prepare Youth for Future of Work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"676\" src=\"http:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG-20190806-WA0017.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG-20190806-WA0017.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG-20190806-WA0017-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG-20190806-WA0017-1024x541.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG-20190806-WA0017-768x406.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption>#YouthandFutureofWork<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The webinar will be preceded by a Twitter chat in a moderated panel to highlight the importance of transforming education in preparing the young men and women in Africa for the Future of Work. This webinar will take place on 12th August 2019 at 13h00-14.30pm EAT. To participate in the webinar, join the meeting through this GoToMeeting link <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gotomeet.me\/youthandfutureofwork\">https:\/\/www.gotomeet.me\/youthandfutureofwork<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Download Concept Note (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Concept-Note_Preparing-Youth-for-Future-of-Work_12-Aug-2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Download Concept Note<\/strong><\/a><\/p><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African Youth Commission in collaboration with Plan International Regional Hub, Plan RESA Country Offices, Africa Youth Trust, Office of the African Union Envoy on Youth and International Organisation of Employers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}