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Rockefeller Foundation Invests In Local Youth

Rockefeller Foundation Invests In Local Youth

Date: 2014-08-15
The Rockefeller Foundation's nearly $100 million investment in Digital Jobs Africa will impact one million people in Africa through jobs and skills for youth in the information communication technology (ICT) sector, people who would not otherwise have an opportunity for sustainable employment.

The Digital Jobs Africa initiative builds on three years of the Foundation's existing work and will focus on high potential youth who lack access to jobs and economic opportunities.

The initiative, led out of the Foundation's Africa Regional office in Nairobi, Kenya, will continue on for the next 7 years and leverage significant funds and support from other stakeholders.

To achieve the goal of impacting one million people, Digital Jobs Africa will bridge the gap between the supply of high potential job seekers, who need both technical and soft skills to be work ready, and companies seeking talent to service their expanding business needs. Digital jobs such as data entry, service centre support, online research and web design will provide youth with skills that will make them more resilient to a dynamic and uncertain labour market. Digital Jobs Africa will focus on three specific interventions:

Creating digital job opportunities by leveraging the rising demands from African-based companies, government, and multinationals, to create employment opportunities and continuing to grow the impact-sourcing sector. Which is the socially responsible arm of the business process and information technology outsourcing industry that employs individuals who would not otherwise have an opportunity for sustainable employment;

Working with local organizations to provide skills training to young people; and supporting an enabling environment for digital jobs that can be coordinated among government and businesses without the continued involvement of philanthropy.

Creating opportunities for African youth to obtain jobs through this initiative will have a powerful multiplier effect. It will improve the welfare of their households and catalyse indirect job creation for their communities. Family members of the youth employed in digital jobs will gain economic and social benefits as a result of the youth working, and the digital jobs created will in turn create indirect job opportunities for communities - ultimately leading to impact on one million people across the continent.

Rockefeller Foundation members met with KZN recipients of the funding, ISA (KZN), Harambee KZN and Careerbox at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

The Rockefeller Foundation aims to achieve equitable growth by expanding opportunity for more people in more places worldwide, and to build resilience by helping them prepare for, withstand, and emerge stronger from acute shocks and chronic stresses. Throughout its 100 year history, The Rockefeller Foundation has enhanced the impact of innovative thinkers and actors working to change the world by providing the resources, networks, convening power, and technologies to move them from idea to impact. In today's dynamic and interconnected world.

The Rockefeller Foundation has a unique ability to address the emerging challenges facing humankind through innovation, intervention and influence in order to shape agendas and inform decision-making.