Nestl\u00e9 and its regional partners have joined forces to launch the Regional Alliance for Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa to promote employability for young people.
The alliance, which will focus on creating and implementing employability programmes, mentorship and training initiatives designed to equip young people with essential workplace skills, is part of the company\u2019s business-driven movement Alliance for YOUth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe believe that investing in youth is vital for thriving, resilient communities, and helps to build our business too,\u201d said R\u00e9my Ejel, Market Head for Nestl\u00e9 Central and West Africa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYoung people are the next generation of employees who will keep our company competitive, the farmers who will grow the crops we need, and the entrepreneurs who will help us reach new markets, regardless of their field or level of expertise. This is just the beginning.\u201d \u201cNearly 77% of the Ivorian population is aged under 35, which means that concrete actions must be taken to provide more opportunities and help to integrate these young people into the workplace,\u201d said Zain Reddiar, General Manager for Human Resources at MTN in Ivory Coast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAt MTN, we are ready to effectively contribute to\nthis project, which we are sure will help a large part of that population.\u201d \u201cYoung people will be better prepared than ever before\nfor the next challenges, supporting the digital changes of the society we are\nliving in, which at the end of the day will benefit all the stakeholders of the\nsub-Saharan region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cShaping the young people within our working context, in an inclusive environment, creating new capabilities, allowing within our domain to further develop technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Smart Data, as many others, shall support the youth to create the world of tomorrow that they will be in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe from our side will support the next generation on this journey, creating the basis for tomorrows challenges.\u201d Nestl\u00e9 and its regional partners have joined forces to launch the Regional Alliance for Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa to promote employability for young people. The alliance, which will focus on creating and implementing employability programmes, mentorship and training initiatives designed to equip young people with essential workplace skills, is part of the company\u2019s business-driven movement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":29976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9058,399,19,260,9059,262,9060],"tags":[11642,411,386,1056,8085,1165,3874,11637,11638,11639,11643,11644,453,419,11641,11640],"class_list":["post-29975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-africa","category-more-news","category-regional-news","category-regional-news-newsletter","category-south-africa","category-used","category-west-africa","tag-adpp","tag-angola","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-data-analytics","tag-government-of-angola","tag-ivory-coast","tag-mtn","tag-nestle","tag-regional-alliance-for-youth","tag-remy-ejel","tag-sergio-filipe","tag-smart-data","tag-south-africa","tag-sub-saharan-africa","tag-swiss-embassy","tag-zain-reddiar"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29975"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29979,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29975\/revisions\/29979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The Regional Alliance for Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa<\/strong>
The alliance has been launched in Ivory Coast, Angola and South Africa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nSimilarly in Angola, the alliance was launched in partnership with the\nGovernment of Angola, the Swiss Embassy, ADPP, Nestl\u00e9 and other private\ncompanies from different sectors operating in Angola.
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\n\u201cThe future can only be built with the next generation, the next sustainable\ncompetitive edge, especially on diversifying economies will have to rely on the\nyouth,\u201d said S\u00e9rgio Filipe, Siemens Angola CEO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Promoting employability<\/strong>
The alliance will combine the efforts of partner companies on hiring, skilling up and training young people by targeting tier three and four universities and vocational schools in and outside of capital cities.
These will be achieved through CV and interview skills-building workshops, identifying career opportunities and accessibility, and offering career-counselling sessions \u2013 reaching about 1,000 youths in Angola by 2020, and 5,000 youths in Ivory Coast by the same period.
As part of the alliance, a flagship initiative will be identified and be jointly owned and implemented by members.
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