East Africa Employability Summit to be held this November in Nairobi
By Dickson Odhiambo
October 19, 2023
East Africa Employability Summit to be held this November in Nairobi
THE East African Employability Career Summit is set to be held in Nairobi in November this year.
The Summit will be held on November 22 and 23 this year at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa{CUEA} within the main auditorium.
The Theme of the Summit is Closing the Gap; A Decade of Investing in Youth Employability Skills in East Africa.
According to the concept note on the forthcoming Summit, the East Africa Career Summit seeks to adopt a dialogue approach in panel discussions preceded by a key note address and succeeded by moderated plenary to deepen participation and participants engagement.alogue approach
The summit is necessitated by the continuous need to find pragmatic solutions
to the employability needs and solving for Africa's most pressing youth bulge
challenge.
The East African employability Career Summit is therefore the
opportune moment to press pause and reflect on the progress, share best
practices, address challenges, and devise a community-wide approach to
double efforts in the next decade to achieve 100% employability and transition.
It convenes the entire higher education ecosystem alongside out of school
employment partners, government and stakeholders keen on transforming the
Subsaharan employment crisis to cross-pollinate ideas and borrow best Practices.
The summit is designed for a diverse audience involved in the higher education
sector, government, and non-government partners facilitating access to
quality education and the end users including recruiters, employers, and industry leaders.
The converging interest is solving Africa’s Youth unemployment time bomb
with a peculiar gross emphasis on facilitating industrialization and economic growth of the continent.
Some of the participants expected include Commissions for University/Higher Education, Student Placement Services ,Universities, Colleges, Technical
Vocational Education Training Institutions (TVETS) among others.
The summit is necessitated by the continuous need to find pragmatic solutions
to the employability needs and solving for Africa's most pressing youth bulge
challenge. In particular, we will seek to generate the following results from the Summit.
At the same time, during the summit, there will be Uongozi Career Awards for this year 2023.
The award was launched in 2022 to Recognize, celebrate and amplify efforts of an individuals and institutions championing career development, Employability skills, leadership and initiatives in advancing the career and job readiness among the In school and out school youth around the East African Community.
The Kenyan Cabinet Secretary in charge of Education Ezekiel Machogu is expected to grace the Summit.
Youth Affairs, Sports and Arts Cabinet Secretary Ababu Namwamba, Australian Ambassador to Kenya and Ministry of Labour representative are some key figures also expected during the two day Regional Summit.
address and succeeded by moderated plenary to deepen participation and
participant engagements. The panels will bring together carefully selected
Global, Regional, and National Experts, Ministry and University Officials,
Employment Initiative, Development partners, the Industry, and exceptional
recent alumni.
he EA Career Summit seeks to adopt a
dialogue approach convened in panel discussions preceded by a keynote
address and succeeded by moderated plenary to deepen participation and
participant engagements. The panels will bring together carefully selected
Global, Regional, and National Experts, Ministry and University Officials,
Employment Initiative, Development partners, the Industry, and exceptional
recent alumni.
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