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Opening Session: |
- Chair, Mayor of Nairobi Joe Akech |
- Hon. Karisa Maitha Minister of Local Government |
- Hon.Prof. Anyan’g Nyongo’ Minister of Planning and National Development. |
- Paul Andre De la Porte |
- Anna Tibaijuka, Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of UN-HABITAT |
- Johan Schölvinck , Department Of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) |
- Makhtar Diop, World Bank |
- Alioune Badiane (Director, Regional Office, Africa and Arab States, UN-HABITAT) |
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- Overview and trends of urban youth employment, with a focus on youth employment in Africa. |
Introduction Donald Lee, DESA/DSPD Email:lee27@un.org |
Overview Steve Miller, Secretary, Youth Employment Network (YEN) Secretariat |
Global Trends Jean Fares, World Bank Email:jfares@worldbank.org |
Youth View |
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- Urban Youth Employment as an issue of Urban Governance Mohamed Halfani UN HABITAT Email: mohamed.halfani@unhabitat.org |
- Salvatore Nigro, The Glocal Forum Employment as a reintegration strategy for Urban Youth at risk |
- Elijah Agevi (Intermediate Technology Development Group Presentation Email:elijah.agevi@itdg.or.ke |
- Florence Poli, NOWA, UNDP Représentative |
- Youth View |
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- KILM and measurement of youth employment, Sarah Elder, International Labor Organisation (ILO) Email: selder@ilo.org Youth View |
- Alternative measures of youth employment/unemployment, Martin Godfrey |
- Gora Mboup, Human Settlements Officer Sr. Demographic & Health Expert UN-HABITAT |
Youth View |
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- Niall O’Higgins Labour market policies |
- Labour market approaches to youth urban employment, Haroon Bhorat University of Cape Town |
- World Bank |
- Makha Sarr PRSPs and youth employment, view from selected African countries |
- Youth View |
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- AGETIP and AFRICATIP, Magatte Wade, AGETIP, Senegal |
"Youth Employment creation through promoting community based enterprises in municipal services" |
- Kees van der Ree, ILO, Alodia Ishengoma, ILO Dar es Salaam |
- City Development Strategies and Youth Employment |
- Mischi Matsahu, Director of Social Services, City Council of Nairobi |
- Richard Mandara, Dar-es Salaam City Council |
- Poonam Ahluwalia Youth Employment Summit Email:poonam@yeswe.org |
Youth View |
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Panel on youth entrepreneurship development |
- Richard Street, Youth Business Initiative |
- Lamose Kekana, UYF |
- Wamuyu Mahinda, YBI, Kenya Email:infokybt@wilken.co.ke |
- Lakshmi Ventakesan, BYST |
- Ernest Kakuwa , Commonwealth Youth Programme Africa Centre |
Youth View |
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PANEL: UNHABITAT - Good practices and lessons learned Drawing upon UN-HABITAT’s experience, including: |
- Stefano Montaccini (Companionship Works association (Citywide Integrated Youth Development Centres). Email:stkizito@africaonline.co.ke |
- Elijah Achoch Ministry of Labour (Youth Round Table Initiative) Email:achoch57@yahoo.com |
- Rob Sinclair UN-HABITAT Consultant, Youth employment and urban renewal Email:rsinclair@iconnect.co.ke |
- Samantha Stern Municipal alliance with local civil society actors on urban youth employment Email: cpeters@icon.co.za |
- Youth View |
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-Field Trip |
-Entrepreneurship/Microcredit/Microfinance Projects/Programmes UN-HABITAT’s project/programme |
- One Stop Youth Information and Resource Centre, DSW Youth Information Centre in Kibera. Butterfly works. |
- YBI, Kenya project |
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(This could be converted into a formal session or panel) |
- Conclusions and policy recommendations |
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Closing Session |
- Message Hon. Raila Odinga, Minister of Housing and Public Works |
- Message Hon. Najib Balala, Minister of Gender, Sports, Culture and Social Services |