{"id":164204,"date":"2024-04-18T08:24:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T08:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/africa\/?page_id=164204"},"modified":"2024-04-26T07:39:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T07:39:32","slug":"jobsnowafrica-campaign","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/africa\/get-involved\/jobsnowafrica-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"JobsNowAfrica Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"block_a1fc2d9e9d1f0dbd1c66f12e67552632\" class=\"oneorg-block oneorg-promo flush is-style-bottom  has-text-align-left  \">\n\n\t\t\t    \n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"oneorg-promo__wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"oneorg-promo__inner\">   \n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"oneorg-promo__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<p class=\"oneorg-section-title\">Get Involved<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-jobsnowafrica-campaign\">JobsNowAfrica Campaign<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Many young people in our communities are looking for a decent job! According to data from the International Labour Organization (ILO),&nbsp;<strong>almost half of Africa\u2019s youth in the workforce were either unemployed or working poor&nbsp;<\/strong>in 2019. Since the pandemic hit, more people are out of jobs than ever before, with women and young people impacted the most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To address this urgent issue of unemployment, we\u2019ve launched the JobsNowAfrica Campaign to help&nbsp;<strong>create 15 million decent jobs<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>in Africa<\/strong>&nbsp;each year by 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sixty per cent of Africa\u2019s population is below the age of 25 and 67% is under 30. Africa needs about 15 million new decent jobs every year to absorb its booming young population. 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Add your name to help make that happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JobNowAfrica Campaign, is a broad-based platform of Civil Society Organizations, young people, women, men and people from all walks of life in Africa who support an urgent call to action on creation of decent jobs in Africa. We recognize that job creation is a joint effort by Governments, public sector, private sectors and individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The overall goal of the Campaign is to advocate for key policy commitments and reforms that will create 15 million decent jobs annually in sub-Saharan Africa by 2025. 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