• Job Creation: The public sector can provide stable employment opportunities for young Africans. • Capacity Building: Training and mentorship programs develop future leaders with the skills to address complex challenges
CASE STUDY: AFRICAN UNION DIGITAL AND INNOVATION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Several successful youth empowerment initiatives have been implemented in various African countries/governments, showcasing the positive impact of empowering African youths within the public sector. One such example is the African Union Digital and Innovation Fellowship Program. The African Union Digital and Innovation Fellowship Program is a 12-month program which aims to identify and deploy highly competent tech innovators from the African continent to units and organs within the African Union headquarters as resident fellows to understand the system within those units, identify data management challenges within the systems and solve the challenges identified by co-creating and building innovative tailor-made products and processes that improve data management processes and the overall work of the AU, while ensuring the sustainability of the developed products and processes post the fellowship timeline, by strengthening the internal capacity of the AU staff within those units. Since its inception in 2021, 13 fellows have been deployed to 10 units and organs of the African union and these fellows have since deployed tech-enabled solutions that improved processes within their assigned units.
African Union Digital and Innovation Fellowship
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