Youth employment: can we succeed in Côte d'Ivoire
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What measures are in place to promote youth employment?
© RFI / Juliette Brault
By: Emmanuelle Bastide
50 mins
In Côte d'Ivoire, where more than three quarters of the population is under 35, employment and professional integration of young people are major concerns for the country.
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With 300,000 to 400,000 young people arriving each year on the job market, demographic pressure is too strong for a rent economy which creates few jobs.
The health crisis and its consequences have also exacerbated the vulnerabilities of this youth.
Precarious and informal jobs without matching their training, lack of technical skills and self-confidence, young people are not well equipped to face a complex world of work.
However, their talents, especially in digital, could constitute immense potential.
What measures are in place to promote youth employment?
What difficulties do businesses face?
How to promote your training and skills when you are a young graduate?
Program recorded in Abidjan on the occasion of FEMUA
With :
Mamadou Touré
, Minister of Youth Promotion, Professional Integration and Civic Service and deputy spokesperson for the government of Côte d'Ivoire
Didier Acouetey
, president of the consultancy firm
AfricSearch
Desyrée Fouqueray-Porquet
, Associate Director of
Quicknet Atalian Global Services
, a leading company in Côte d'Ivoire in the fields of industrial cleaning, facility management (or facility management), building maintenance and green spaces
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