{"id":8910,"date":"2025-04-01T13:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T13:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/?p=8910"},"modified":"2026-01-19T19:53:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:53:40","slug":"investing-in-youth-skills-development-and-entrepreneurship-education-in-africa-as-a-pathway-to-unlocking-the-continents-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/investing-in-youth-skills-development-and-entrepreneurship-education-in-africa-as-a-pathway-to-unlocking-the-continents-potential\/","title":{"rendered":"Investing in Youth Skills Development and Entrepreneurship Education in Africa as a Pathway to Unlocking the Continent&#8217;s Potential"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The white paper posits that strategic investments in youth skills development and entrepreneurship education are not only critical to unlocking Africa\u2019s vast youth potential but are also essential for fostering innovative, locally grounded solutions to entrenched development challenges. Such investments have the dual potential of catalysing sustainable economic growth and addressing structural poverty by breaking cycles of generational inequities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read and download the full white paper below to explore how we can turn this vision into reality.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/White-Paper-Stakeholder-Convening-Final.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of White-Paper-Stakeholder-Convening-Final.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-da8b970b-9b30-4bd1-a55c-3d51c5b95965\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/White-Paper-Stakeholder-Convening-Final.pdf\">White-Paper-Stakeholder-Convening-Final<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The white paper posits that strategic investments in youth skills development and entrepreneurship education are not only critical to unlocking Africa\u2019s vast youth potential but are also essential for fostering innovative, locally grounded solutions to entrenched development challenges. Such investments have the dual potential of catalysing sustainable economic growth and addressing structural poverty by breaking &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/investing-in-youth-skills-development-and-entrepreneurship-education-in-africa-as-a-pathway-to-unlocking-the-continents-potential\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Investing in Youth Skills Development and Entrepreneurship Education in Africa as a Pathway to Unlocking the Continent&#8217;s Potential<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications"],"acf":{"featured_alumni_video":"","year":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/CLP_4139-1-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8910"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10313,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8910\/revisions\/10313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}