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UNDP South Africa Annual Report 2021

We are pleased to share the UNDP South Africa 2021 Annual Report! UNDP South Africa, in partnership with various key actors and stakeholders, delivered a portfolio of interventions to respond to the country’s most pressing development challenges, including youth unemployment, the digital divide, citizens’ democratic participation, social cohesion, climate change impacts, and services delivery to the population. Additionally, UNDP also prioritised the South African Government's response to the impact of COVID-19 by contributing financial, technical and policy advisory support, as well as driving innovation and gender mainstreaming across all programmes for impactful delivery towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

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UNDP upskills youth and women in the automotive sector

This video covers the training aspect of the “Automotive Training and Re-Skilling in the Post-COVID Economic Recovery for Vulnerable Youth and Women in South Africa” project, as well as looking at the advancing of the Presidential Youth Employment Initiative through promoting the SAYouth platform. Amongst other activities, 64 young people (26 women) have been trained on work readiness (as entry-level manufacturing operators) and gender equality and social inclusion. Additional, 11,500 students have signed up to be linked to employment and income-generating opportunities on the SAYouth and Yakh'iFuture platforms and 530 found employment opportunities to date.

South Africa at a Glance

61.93

million

population

64.13

years

Life expectancy at birth

0.709

rank

human development index

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