Recent Articles From EvanCarmichael.com http://www.evancarmichael.com/ http://www.evancarmichael.com/African-Accounts/1653/New-cable-to-connect-eastern-Africa.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/African-Accounts/1653/New-cable-to-connect-eastern-Africa.html NEPAD pushes for cheaper, faster telecommunications http://www.evancarmichael.com/African-Accounts/1653/Africa-aims-for-a-scientific-revolution.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/African-Accounts/1653/Africa-aims-for-a-scientific-revolution.html More funding needed for research institutes and universities http://www.evancarmichael.com/African-Accounts/1653/New-Partnership-for-Africas-Development.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/African-Accounts/1653/New-Partnership-for-Africas-Development.html The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) was adopted as the continent’s main development framework at a July 2001 summit meeting of African heads of state. According to NEPAD, attainment of Africa’s long-term development goals is anchored in the determination of African peoples “to extricate themselves and the continent from the malaise of underdevelopment and exclusion in a globalizing world.” http://www.evancarmichael.com/African-Accounts/1653/Internet-enriches-learning-in-rural-Uganda.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/African-Accounts/1653/Internet-enriches-learning-in-rural-Uganda.html NEPAD e-schools connecting students to the world http://www.evancarmichael.com/African-Accounts/1653/Woman-storekeeper-boosts-Malawi-farming.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/African-Accounts/1653/Woman-storekeeper-boosts-Malawi-farming.html NEPAD seeks to bring fertilizer nearer to villagers http://www.evancarmichael.com/African-Accounts/1653/Wanted-jobs-for-Africas-youth--Business-Friendly.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/African-Accounts/1653/Wanted-jobs-for-Africas-youth--Business-Friendly.html In the short term, countries need to do away with policies that hinder investment, notes the World Bank in its report Doing Business in 2006: Creating Jobs. African countries impose the most stringent regulations on entrepreneurs, the Bank reports. http://www.evancarmichael.com/African-Accounts/1653/Wanted-jobs-for-Africas-youth--Policy-Reforms.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/African-Accounts/1653/Wanted-jobs-for-Africas-youth--Policy-Reforms.html “For successful poverty reduction, African countries have to be in the driver’s seat,” says World Bank Africa Region Vice-President Gobind Nankani. “Africans know best where the shoe pinches. They should craft their own poverty-reduction strategies based on national realities.” http://www.evancarmichael.com/African-Accounts/1653/Wanted-jobs-for-Africas-youth--Public-Works.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/African-Accounts/1653/Wanted-jobs-for-Africas-youth--Public-Works.html In many countries, immediate, short-term solutions are needed to quickly ease the burden of unemployment. Public works programmes are a popular option. South Africa, which commits more than $800 mn to public works, has one of the best programmes on the continent, reports the ILO. In terms of technical design standards and the quality of completed physical infrastructure, the country’s public works programme “was regarded as surpassing anything that the ILO members of an evaluation team had encountered in more than 30 developing countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific,” notes the ILO. http://www.evancarmichael.com/African-Accounts/1653/Wanted-jobs-for-Africas-youth--Entrepreneurship.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/African-Accounts/1653/Wanted-jobs-for-Africas-youth--Entrepreneurship.html Another focus of action has been on spreading entrepreneurship skills beyond the schools. A number of countries have introduced entrepreneurship training programmes, including Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. Policymakers believe that the promotion of small-business enterprises and the informal sector offer quick solutions to joblessness. http://www.evancarmichael.com/African-Accounts/1653/Wanted-jobs-for-Africas-youth--Education-and-training.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/African-Accounts/1653/Wanted-jobs-for-Africas-youth--Education-and-training.html “It is clear that to rise out of poverty, the people of our continent need jobs and education,” says ECA Executive Secretary Janneh. “Not just any job, but one that provides a decent wage and employment conditions.” According to the Addis Ababa-based ECA, it is crucial for countries to expand training, lifelong learning, education and other means of improving skills, with a particular focus on young people.