OSSREA

This project, which is a collaborative research to be carried out by African experts in the field, has the objective of examining the challenges of youth unemployment in national development and stability in Africa as well as the policies and strategies aimed to address it. It will investigate thoroughly the link between youth unemployment and youth adolescent problems, including rates of drug abuse, irresponsible sexual behavior, child prostitution, trafficking and use of children by adults in criminal activity, child recruitment into clandestine, overt, combat and other activities. Focusing on strategies and policies considered by African countries to address the challenge of youth unemployment, the project will assess the effectiveness of employment creation strategies; examine the vocational education system and their contribution to enhance capacity of youth employment, review the policy framework and strategies for improving conditions for self employment and decent work. The knowledge generated will be used to make African countries learn from each other on the ways and means of handing youth unemployment problem.

This is a collaborative research project to be conducted by African social scientists, especially from member countries of OSSREA. It aims to generate knowledge on the characteristics, patterns, prospects and consequences of migration within the African region as well as migration out of Africa, which will be used as inputs into national and regional migration policies. The project will probe into various pertinent issues of migration, including the causes and consequences of intra-African migration, the Diaspora in the economic and political dynamics of Africa; remittance and the welfare system of the African economies; return migration; channeling migrant capital into African investment; glitches of migration (brain drain, anti-social behavior and human right abuses); migration policies within and across regional blocks, etc.