African Development Bank (AfDB) launched new program “Coding for Employment” to create 25 million jobs across Africa

Nigeria : The African Development Bank (AfDB) launches its new program namely “Coding for Employment” in Nigeria . The African Development Bank (AfDB), in partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation, Microsoft and Facebook – launched their new program namely “Coding for Employment” that will enable youth to create job opportunities.

The new Program has been acknowledged to prepare Africa’s youth for tomorrow’s jobs and unleashes the next generation of young digital innovators from the continent.

According to Ghada Khalifa, Director of Microsoft Philanthropies for the Middle East and Africa, “Digital skills are fast becoming essential for the jobs of today and tomorrow. Unfortunately, these skills are beyond the reach of too many young people in Africa.

Together with our partners like the African Development Bank, we are working to change that. The partnership between Microsoft and the African Development Bank will continue to focus on increasing the participation of underserved youth and women while equipping youth across Africa with the skills needed to fill jobs now and in the future,” she said.

The Coding for Employment will create over the bank seeks to create 25 million jobs across Africa. Youth and women across Africa will benefit it.

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The ICT and Youth Development expert at the African Development Bank, Uyoyo Edosio, said it had been an amazing start for the Coding for Employment programme in Nigeria.

Different academic institutions from Nigeria were selected as beneficiaries such as Ahmadu Bello University, Covenant University, Gombe State University and the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

With a focus on capacity building, the programme is set to anticipate that 75 percent of the trainees will be linked with employment opportunities, while 25 percent will become entrepreneurs.

An amount of $2 million is set to operate the program

The AfDB had identified leading academic institutions, probably designated “Centers of Excellence,” in Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal and Cote D’Ivoire, which were scheduled to run the pilot phase of the digital skills training programme last November.

In partnership with Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller said to support the vision with the $2 million trust fund to equip and operationalize the plan in order to establish well this program, will AfDB the owner of this program will supply educators and IT experts, and Facebook and Microsoft philanthropies will design the curriculum.

The initiative has recorded some successful results. “More young people and students across Africa and in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous economy, are becoming computer literate, with coding and digital skills training, under the “Coding for Employment” programme of the African Development Bank,” read a statement from the bank.

With initiatives like this that support youth development, many young Africans hope to have equal opportunities to solve social problems in the competitive global world.

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