RIGHT-SKILLING THE WORKFORCE IN AFRICA FOR INDUSTR

With funding from Microsoft Foundation, and in partnership with the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and the National University of Singapore, ACET is undertaking a project on Right-skilling the Workforce in Africa and South East Asia for Industry 4.0. At the core of the project is the organization of country roundtables with various country stakeholders to explore how developing countries have created or are creating the right skills economy for the workforce of tomorrow. The project will attempt to identify and evaluate the effectiveness of existing initiatives and their relative success or failure in skilling the workforce; track progress, compare approaches, gauge impact of success and failures of different approaches, and draw lessons for policy for formulation. The extent to which gender issues have been mainstreamed throughout the initiatives spearheaded by government, academia and key industry players will also be explored. In q4 we prepared a power point presentation as the last deliverable for the project. The project has ended but submission of the presentation is due in January 2020