Today Statistician General Risenge Maluleke announced the unemployment statistics for the last quarter of 2021 and it seem like South Africa will be grappling with high unemployment figures for quite some time. But job scarcity is not unique to South Africa alone. Despite having human capital and a vibrant workforce, many African countries are battling to create secure jobs for their citizens.   

We’re in conversation with Edwin Ikhuorai, Africa’s Executive Director at ONE, and they will be launching their Jobs Campaign. It is said that Africa needs 15 million new decent jobs every year to harness its demographic dividend that reflects a booming young population. But the potential benefits of Africa’s youthful population are unrealized and more than two-thirds of non-student youth are unemployed, discouraged, or only vulnerably employed.

The overall goal of the Jobs Campaign is to advocate for key policy commitments and reforms that create 15 million decent jobs annually in sub-Saharan Africa by 2025. Other launches are taking place in DRC and Kenya.

Title:                   [• Mr ]   

Name:                 [•Edwin Ikhuoria]  

Position at organisation:  [• ONE’s Africa Executive Director]