Join YouthLead Ambassadors, Christine Ogola and David Watson for a webinar to discuss opportunities associated with future skills as well as approaches to developing the capacity of young individuals to adapt to a changing future and pursue emerging opportunities.
Join YouthLead Ambassadors, Christine Ogola, Kenya and David Watson, Zambia in a conversation to discuss opportunities associated with future skills as well as approaches to developing the capacity of young individuals to adapt to a changing future and pursue emerging opportunities. A better understanding of emerging labor trends and needed future skills will help youth generate sustainable jobs and inform better-targeted training solutions. This webinar will focus on how global trends—and in particular the adoption of digital technology—will change the nature of work in Sub-Saharan Africa while identifying likely challenges and new opportunities. The Ambassadors will draw learnings from their experiences and discuss various strategies to create decent jobs in line with future opportunities in Africa, and globally.
Event Objectives
Provide an in-depth understanding of the dynamics of work and the potential role different sectors can play in addressing matters related to future skills and employment opportunities
Empower and strengthen youth to recognize and take control of the changing world of work
Enable youth to identify present and future opportunities, adapt and focus on enhancing marketable skills, maximizing their access to decent incomes and fulfilled lives
Speakers
Christine Ogola
Christine Ogola (Kenya) With passion for youth empowerment and a desire to see vulnerable groups build resilient livelihoods, Chistine Ogola is the Kenyan YouthLead Ambassador and YALI EA RLC Alumnus. Christine is an executive member of Youth for Sustainable Development, championing meaningful youth engagement, social accountability and inclusion for all. She is recognized as a Global Livelihood’s Impact Award Winner for her commitment in achieving significant impact, contributing to ending poverty and inequality. Her vision for Leaving no one behind is rooted in improving inclusion, participation, and responsiveness of the vulnerable groups in realizing the UN Agenda 2030.
David Watson
David Watson (Zambia) David Watson Mwabila is a climate change activist, an award-winning social entrepreneur, and accountability advocate. He is also the founder of FourthLine in Zambia. Fourthline is a youth-led social enterprise and financial supporter for African farmers. David engages rural and small-scale farmers working in honey, beeswax, and bee venom production, processing, and valuation to provide an alternative sustainable income source to logging and charcoal production. Since its founding, the enterprise has contributed to lifting thousands of vulnerable communities out of poverty and reducing the alarming rates of deforestation in Zambia by advocating for the preservation of Africa's pristine forests. In 2019, FourthLine won the SEED Award for climate smart and eco-inclusive enterprises in Africa by the UNEP.
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