Posts on the Topic "youth"
Webinar Invitation: Responding to Covid-19 in Africa through youth-led digital solutions in agri-foods systems
22/05/2020
FAO Regional Office for Africa and Generation Africa are pleased to invite interested persons to join the webinar, ' Responding to Covid-19 in Africa through youth-led digital solutions in agri-foods systems' on the 2nd of June, 2020 at 13:00 -14:30, Rome (11:00 -12:30, Accra /14:00 -15:30, Nairobi)...
Zoominar V on The Role of Youth in Agri-Food System Innovation in the Context of COVID-19
18/05/2020
Background Young people are driving innovation in agri-food systems and have a key role to play in achieving global food security and nutrition. The current crisis has brought both new challenges and opportunities for young innovators working to transform the sector. Paramount to ensuring that young...
Report on E- Consultation on ‘Youth Employment in Africa as a Solid Solution to ending Hunger and Poverty in Africa’ published in French and Spanish
31/03/2020
The summary report on the online discussion, 'Youth employment in agriculture as a solid solution to ending hunger and poverty in Africa' is now available in English| French| Spanish The online e-consultation on Youth employment in agriculture as a solid solution to ending hunger and poverty in...
Challenge Call on the ‘Desert Locust’ at the Kampala INSPIRE Hackathon 2020
19/03/2020
The ‘desert locust’ is one of the challenge calls at the Kampala INSPIRE Hackathon 2020. The Kampala INSPIRE Hackathon 2020 is one of the satellite INSPIRE hackathons. The hackathon is organised in the frame of the IST Africa 2020 Conference. There are 9 challenges in this Kampala edition. The...06/ 03
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International Women’s Day (IWD) 2020 "I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights”
Rome, Italy 06/03/2020
The United Nations theme for the observance of the International Women’s Day (IWD) 2020 is: "I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights”. Since 2020 marks also the 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, which took place in Beijing in September 1995, this year’s IWD presents a unique opportunity to review the global progress made on gender equality and women’s empowerment in the last 25 years, identify the gender gaps that still remain, and outline the way forward.
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Kampala INSPIRE Hackathon 2020
04/05/2020 – 05/05/2020
The IST-Africa 2020 conference, supported by the European Commission (EC) and the African Union Commission (AUC), addresses a series of societal challenges. The Kampala INSPIRE Hackathon 2020 is a contribution to the joint efforts to solve these challenges. The hackathon addresses some of the key topics identified by the IST-Africa conference, such as agriculture, environmental sustainability, collaborative open innovation and ICT-enabled entrepreneurship.
Kampala INSPIRE Hackathon 2020
09/02/2020
The news is shared as announced in listservs The INSPIRE Hackathon is a collaborative event for developers, researchers, designers and others interested in open data, volunteered geographic information and citizen observatories. The main driving force for the INSPIRE Hackathon is provided by experts...
WSIS Forum Photo Contest 2020
13/12/2019
WSIS is inviting you to picture how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs ) are playing an enabling role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Participate in building a collage of ICT for Sustainable Development photographs from around the world. Send photos of your...
African Development Bank launches digital tool to help African youth learn to code
13/12/2019
The African Development Bank and Microsoft have launched the ‘Coding for Employment’ digital training platform, an online tool to provide digital skills to African youth, wherever they are across the continent. The platform teaches technical courses like web development, design, data science and...