In January 2016, the African Union Comission published a draft concept note for Inter-Generational Dialogue (IGD). IGD ideally involves providing spaces that allow for people of different ages to interact and achieve understanding and solidarity between them for the welfare of the community.
The concept note highlighted the fact that in Africa, young people represent more than 60 percent of the continent's total population and account for 40 percent of the total labour force. Unfortunately it projected that by 2022, anestimated 40 million more youth in Africa will face an uncertain future without work and life skills. This would in turn have the following consequences:
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