Browsing: Africa’s youth population

• At AfDB annual forum, policymakers note that Africa must roll out policies that enable its capital—both financial and human—to work better and harder for its development.
• Leaders note that success of Agenda 20263 depends on the continent’s ability in capital deployment, ensuring it effectively and addresses long-standing structural inefficiencies.
• To-date, infrastructure woes, fragmented financial markets, and joblessness among youth continue to undermine the continent’s growth.

Africa stands at the threshold of a new era — one defined not by its challenges but by the vastness of its opportunities. As the world’s youngest continent, home to a growing population projected to reach 2.5 billion by 2050, Africa is rich not just in demographics but in resources, innovation potential, and human capital.

Yet despite these inherent advantages, the continent’s transformation into a global growth engine has been inconsistent and, in many areas, underwhelming. The message emerging from the 2025 Annual Meetings of …

• Tanzania hosts World Bank Group Human Capital Project (HCP)
• President Samia announces national efforts to increase youth employment
• Africa suffers the lowest learning poverty in the world

It is now three years since the World Bank Group launched the Human Capital Project (HCP) in 2018, and Tanzania is making the best of the initiative.

Let’s first look at the World Bank Group’s intentions under the Human Capital Project (HCP) and then see how Tanzania intends to lead the rest of Africa in the implementation of the project. The HCP is a global effort to “accelerate more and better investments in people for greater equity and economic growth.”

The HCP is an initiative by the World Bank to help countries increase employment and employability of their workforce.

Since its launch in 2018, the initiative now has some 87 members. On July 25, Tanzania hosted the launch of the Africa Heads of …