The document discusses rural youth employment trends and opportunities in agriculture and food sectors in West and East Africa according to OECD forecasts. It notes that while the majority of new jobs will still be in farming, there will be a significant increase in off-farm jobs, especially in services. The sector project aims to address rural youth employment more strategically and measure employment effects in rural development projects over the next 5 years with a budget of 5 million euros. Upcoming activities include integrating rural employment into results assessments and developing tools to design employment indicators for rural programs.

1. Sector Project „Employment in rural areas with focus on youth“ !1
Key facts and dynamics for rural youth employment
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2. Titel !2
Agriculture / Food Economy highly relevant for creating future jobs
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OECD-SWAC forecast for West
Africa:
➢ 32 mill. new jobs until 2025 in
the agrifood sector
➢ General trend: significant
increase in share of off-farm
jobs - from 25 - 30%, esp. in
the service sector
➢ But: Despite relative decline,
56% of new jobs will still be
in farming
! Similar findings for eastern and
southern Africa
Source: OECD-SWAC (2018)

3. Sector Project „Employment in rural areas with focus on youth“ !3
▪ Rural Youth Employment (RYE) is high on the agenda!! SEWOH,
Berlin Charta, G20, new government, EU-AU, AfDB, IFAD, etc. ! topic
is gaining a lot of momentum!!
▪ Portfolio Analysis: Only ~20% of the RD-portfolio have explicit
employment objectives / indicators (~25% have none), RYE has not yet
been on the agenda yet ! still a diverse portfolio with good practices on
approaches and measurement
▪ Hypothesis: We already achieve substantial employment effects in
RD, but often we do not measure them sufficiently! focus so far on
productivity and income
▪ Conclusion: We need to address RYE employment more strategically
in the future portfolio development, we need to know what works
Recent trends in the topic of rural (youth) employment in GIZ
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4. Sector Project „Employment in rural areas with focus on youth“ !4
Sector Project “Employment in rural areas with focus on youth”
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Term: 5 years (01/2018-12/2022); budget: 5.000.000. EUR, SEWOH-financed
Regional Focus:
Sub-Sahara-Africa,
esp. Compact Countries,
but Asia / LA experiences
important
Thematic Focus:
Mainly Agri-Food Sector,
but many sectoral linkages

5. Sector Project „Employment in rural areas with focus on youth“ !5
Upcoming Activities
▪ RYE is one of the core topics of the further development of the “SEWOH 2.0”
and shall be integrated more systematically into the RD portfolio (with FMB)
▪ Integration of the rural employment perspective in the current GIZ Results Data
assessment (with FMB) ! see slide from Christoph Langenkamp
▪ Methodology and development of a manual / tool-kit for designing pragmatic
employment related objective and indicator systems in RD programs ! Field-
testing from Sept/Oct in 1-2 countries
▪ SNRD CoP on Rural Employment ! Needs assessment
▪ Stocktaking of current approaches at policy and project level with SNRD
▪ Joint Webinar Series (topics e.g. on decent work, VfM / cost of jobs,
mechanization, etc.) ! what are your interests?
▪ …
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