{"id":100474,"date":"2023-08-14T19:38:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T19:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby"},"modified":"2023-08-14T20:28:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T20:28:33","slug":"youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby","title":{"rendered":"Youths skills gap slowing Africa’s SDG targets \u2013 lobby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>Youths in Africa urgently need post-school skills and support to shape implementation of Sustainable Development Goals in the continent, according to Leap Africa.<\/p>\n

The Nigeria based firm that focuses on youth leadership development in the continent, says most youths lack a clear understanding of sustainability goals, while those who do lack adequate skills to drive the process<\/p>\n

In an interview, Leap Africa executive director Kehinde Ayeni said based on the firm\u2019s assessment, it is evident that youths under the age of 35 are a vibrant segment of the society, and play a critical role in the drive towards sustainable development.<\/p>\n

This is because they form a majority of the people behind community development projects and innovations that have for instance, seen the emergence of tech start-ups for development.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey therefore need to be accelerated through upskilling, to make them more profitable in projects they do, sustainable and attractive to more funders,\u201d Ayeni said.<\/p>\n

She said this would that it would help scale up the pace towards 2030 SDG goals which the continent is still lagging behind on.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the goals will go even beyond 100 years from now, with so many stones still unturned, among them the niche of empowering and upskilling individuals through partnerships.\u201d<\/p>\n

She acknowledged that among the challenges slowing Kenya and other African countries towards achieving the goals is the doubt of whether they are doing enough or not.<\/p>\n

Lack of combined support from the government, civil community and the private sector is also another challenge.<\/p>\n

It is in this backdrop that the firm is now in the country targeting youths with its accelerator programmes through the fourth edition of the Pan Pan-African \u2018Youth Day of Service (YDoS)\u2019campaign.<\/p>\n

Dubbed \u2018Youthful and Useful\u2019, the social impact campaign kicked off on August 12, and will run to the end of this month.<\/p>\n

Through the programmes, Ayeni noted that youths in the country will get up skilling and funding opportunities from different partners to support their sustainable development projects.<\/p>\n

First time project leaders stand to access at least $500 (Sh71,850) of funding<\/p>\n

Partnering with Dow, a global leader in materials science, the firm seeks to foster the spirit of service to community and volunteerism among the youth population in the country and in Africa.<\/p>\n

ChildFund International regional director Chege Ngugi said African countries should focus more on increasing investments through the government and other stakeholders in youth development programs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile many laudable initiatives, such as national youth funds exist, there is still a dire need to do more to ensure all youth, given the huge number, are adequately resourced to achieve their best potential,\u201d Chege said.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Kenya<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Kenya. Youths in Africa urgently need post-school skills and support to shape implementation of Sustainable Development Goals in the continent, according to Leap Africa. The Nigeria based firm that focuses on youth leadership development in the continent, says most youths lack a clear understanding of sustainability goals, while those who do lack adequate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":100473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[6857,7003,544],"class_list":["post-100474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-kenya","tag-kenya"],"yoast_head":"\nYouths skills gap slowing Africa's SDG targets \u2013 lobby - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Youths in Africa urgently need post-school skills and support to shape implementation of Sustainable Development Goals i ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Youths skills gap slowing Africa's SDG targets \u2013 lobby\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Youths in Africa urgently need post-school skills and support to shape implementation of Sustainable Development Goals i ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-08-14T19:38:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-14T20:28:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2023\/08\/sm_1692028196.126731.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"666\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Youths skills gap slowing Africa’s SDG targets \u2013 lobby\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-08-14T19:38:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-14T20:28:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby\"},\"wordCount\":455,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2023\/08\/sm_1692028196.126731.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Kenya\",\"Kenya\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby\",\"name\":\"Youths skills gap slowing Africa's SDG targets \u2013 lobby - kenya\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2023\/08\/sm_1692028196.126731.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-08-14T19:38:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-14T20:28:33+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Youths in Africa urgently need post-school skills and support to shape implementation of Sustainable Development Goals i ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2023\/08\/sm_1692028196.126731.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2023\/08\/sm_1692028196.126731.jpg\",\"width\":1000,\"height\":666,\"caption\":\"Youths skills gap slowing Africa's SDG targets \u2013 lobby\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Youths skills gap slowing Africa’s SDG targets \u2013 lobby\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/\",\"name\":\"kenya\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Youths skills gap slowing Africa's SDG targets \u2013 lobby - kenya","description":"Youths in Africa urgently need post-school skills and support to shape implementation of Sustainable Development Goals i ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Youths skills gap slowing Africa's SDG targets \u2013 lobby","og_description":"Youths in Africa urgently need post-school skills and support to shape implementation of Sustainable Development Goals i ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby","og_site_name":"kenya","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2023-08-14T19:38:17+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-08-14T20:28:33+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1000,"height":666,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2023\/08\/sm_1692028196.126731.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Youths skills gap slowing Africa’s SDG targets \u2013 lobby","datePublished":"2023-08-14T19:38:17+00:00","dateModified":"2023-08-14T20:28:33+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby"},"wordCount":455,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2023\/08\/sm_1692028196.126731.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Kenya","Kenya"],"articleSection":["all news","economy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby","name":"Youths skills gap slowing Africa's SDG targets \u2013 lobby - kenya","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2023\/08\/sm_1692028196.126731.jpg","datePublished":"2023-08-14T19:38:17+00:00","dateModified":"2023-08-14T20:28:33+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Youths in Africa urgently need post-school skills and support to shape implementation of Sustainable Development Goals i ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2023\/08\/sm_1692028196.126731.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2023\/08\/sm_1692028196.126731.jpg","width":1000,"height":666,"caption":"Youths skills gap slowing Africa's SDG targets \u2013 lobby"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/youths-skills-gap-slowing-africas-sdg-targets-lobby#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Youths skills gap slowing Africa’s SDG targets \u2013 lobby"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/","name":"kenya","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}