Making Green Hydrogen Work 

Together, we are working to ensure Africa’s green hydrogen transition is just: empowering youth and women, creating decent work, and supporting inclusive and sustainable development.

Green jobs for youth in a Just Food Systems Transition in Africa

This INCLUDE funded research programme seeks to explore pathways for a just food systems transition in Africa that is sustainable, equitable, and focused on creating resilient livelihoods. It aims to address how food systems can be transformed to support young people and vulnerable communities facing the climate crisis.

Standardizing TVET Curriculum for Renewable Energy in Nigeria: Overview 

Standardizing the TVET curriculum for renewable energy is a vital step toward sustainable energy access and economic development in Nigeria. By building a collaborative platform that unites educators, industry leaders, government, and international partners, this initiative will establish the foundation for a robust, future-ready workforce and a greener Nigeria.

Greening Technical and Vocational Education and Training for the solar industry in Africa

The Solar Hands-on training and International Network of Exchange (SHINE) is a Capacity Building programme funded by the EU Commission that seeks to drive the green transition and enhance energy access in Africa by Greening TVET for the solar sector in Uganda, Nigeria and Ghana.

A Green and Inclusive Future for Youth in the Global South

Presenting the latest insights from research and practice, this project aims to strengthen the evidence base on youth employment in just energy transitions in Africa. By looking at the African energy sector and its complexities this project aims to understand where opportunities for youth employment are most pronounced and what systemic barriers need to be addressed to create an enabling environment for youth to thrive and drive a truly just transition in Africa.

African Policy Dialogues

APD Participants in Ghana

Initiated by INCLUDE’s platform members, African Policy Dialogues (APDs) are networks of policy actors that aim to encourage the use of existing and new knowledge in policy making in Africa.

Green Jobs and the Future of Work in Africa

Since 2022, INCLUDE and Palladium combine their forces in a long-term partnership to strengthen the evidence base around youth employment and the future of work in Africa.

Growth sectors for youth employment

‘Work and income for young men and women in Africa: a political economy and social equity approach to the employment potential of specific sectors and subsectors in African economies’

– an AERC–ODI–ERF-INCLUDE collaborative research project.

Boosting Decent Employment for Africa’s Youth

How can soft skills development and work-based learning improve job opportunities for young people?

Objectives:

• Synthesize and share evidence about why, and how best to, support youth employment
• Generate new, rigorous evidence on how soft skills development and work-based learning may boost economic opportunities for youth
• Develop a community of practice and engage youth to foster learning and policy outreach through multi-stakeholder dialogue within and between countries

Digital divides or dividends?

Including basic services in Africa’s digitalisation agenda

This research programme has been designed to gather important information to support the effective digitalisation of basic services in Africa.

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Equity in COVID-19

Mitigation and Policy Responses in Africa

This research programme systematically reconstructs, documents and analyses the mitigation measures, policy responses and interventions by national governments and non-state actors in twelve African countries in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

New Roles of Civil Society Organizations for Inclusive Development

Investigating the assumptions underlying the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ civil society policy framework ‘Dialogue & Dissent’.

Objectives:

• Generating new, evidence-based knowledge on the assumptions of the theory of change underlying the Dialogue & Dissent framework.
• Making this knowledge accessible, available and applicable to policymakers and CSOs in the Netherlands and in LLMICs.

Research for Inclusive Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Research on social protection, productive employment and strategic actors for inclusive development.

Objective:

• To pay specific attention in policy description and practical advice for transformation processes for inclusive development in Africa to the role of strategic actors , to more inclusive productive employment policies and practices and to the cost-effectiveness of social protection programmes.