New funding to grow jobs and work experiences for work-seekers
Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator and LGT Venture Philanthropy have entered into a partnership that will support Harambee’s …
Breaking Barriers May 2019
BREAKING BARRIERSMAY 2019 Quarterly Employment Report May 2019 VIEW REPORT ARCHIVE Employers regularly say they can’t find the people they need because of a lack of skills and educational qualifications. The response to this is often long (and expensive) training...
Social impact bonds addressing youth unemployment
In the nascent impact bonds market, employment is one of the most popular sectors, representing nearly a third of the deals contracted globally. After a year of implementation, the first social impact bond(SIB) in South Africa—the Inclusive Youth Employment Pay for...
The Kasinomic Entreprevolution
Unemployment has been declared a national crisis in South Africa. Half of the countries youth are unemployed. Can entrepreneurship provide the answer? The insert examines the Kasi economy or “Kasinomic Entreprevolution”, a multi-billion Rand network of...