“Cross-fertilization of national experiences” needed to boost job creation in post COVID-19 Africa (expert)

Abstract

The Economic Commission for Africa and NKC African Economics held on a joint webinar under the theme “Best Practices in Job Creation, lessons from Africa.” The meeting aimed to collect African experts’ comments and feedback to help finalize an upcoming, joint ECA – NKC African Economics report on the same topic. The goal of the report is to look at how best to facilitate job creation as the region’s economy initiate its recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. e the study warns that successful job creation initiatives cannot be replicated from one African country to another without being adapted to the national contexts, it has also revealed a number of approaches and areas of focus that tend to be more successful and which could therefore be considered as best practice in employment creation. These successful approaches and areas of focus include, for example, partnerships, and especially public-private partnerships, skills development, youth employment, investment promotion and improved access to credit and finance.