Digital Skills Outcomes Fund
Aligned SDGs
- Digital Skills Outcomes Fund
- General overview
- Intervention
- Target population
- Location
- Outcome metrics
- Last data update
- Spreadsheet of data
- Digital Skills Outcomes Fund
- General overview
- Intervention
- Target population
- Location
- Outcome metrics
- Last data update
- Spreadsheet of data
General overview
Stage of development: Final negotiations
Policy sectors: Employment and private sector development / Education
Type of instrument: Outcomes Fund
Delivery locations: South Africa
Country classification: Upper-middle-income
Expected launch date: Q4 - 2022
Max potential outcome payment: ZAR 3.50b
Intervention
Social or environmental challenge
South Africa has a youth unemployed rate of about 70%. One million youth enter the job market each year, two thirds of which do not find their way into employment, education, or training. In the digital sector, as a result of the supply and demand mismatch, it is estimated that over 80,000 vacancies go unfilled.
Description of the intervention
Innovative and efficient and demand driven digital skills apprenticeships to transition poor youth into available vacancies.
Target population
Excluded unemployed individuals that have the right profile for the most in-demand digital entry-level roles. We have mapped the demand requirements for these roles in the South African economy and are looking to stimulate 80,000 new jobs by 2025.
Location
Country:
- South Africa
Locality:
- South Africa
Outcome metrics
- Opportunities secured; Work integrated learning; Conversion into new jobs; Conversation into long-term paid opportunities, including learning opportunities.
Last data update
Data for this pipeline project was last updated in March 2024
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Spreadsheet of data
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