African Policy Dialogues

APD Participants in Ghana

Status: ongoing

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

Image Credit: Whitney van Schyndel

Status: ongoing

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’

Status: ongoing

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

Boosting Decent Employment for Africa’s Youth

Status: ongoing

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

Status: Completed in 2022

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

Status: completed in 2022

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

Status: completed (2018-2020)

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

Status: completed (2014-2018)

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.