Green Technology for Green Growth: Barriers and Drivers

About Project

African countries face three significant challenges: combating climate change, delivering climate-resilient economic growth and youth unemployment. Green technology can provide solutions enabling African countries to respond to their development trilemma. However, Africa has a green technology gap, and green technology innovation and development are slow. Africa is home to vast local knowledge systems and indigenous and endogenous technologies. These can be leveraged in ways that address climate-related challenges and youth unemployment.

This project seeks to generate evidence and create awareness of the policy options African economies can use to harness indigenous and endogenous green technologies for employment among the youth, especially women while addressing the persistent growth-related challenges African countries face. The project also seeks to understand the key actors, policy context, barriers, and enablers in the nexus between green technology and youth employment and the youth’s roles in this space and tease out what inhibits or drives their contribution to innovation.

The Mastercard Foundation

The Mastercard Foundation is a registered Canadian charity and one of the largest foundations in the world. It works with visionary organizations to advance education and financial inclusion to enable young people in Africa and Indigenous youth in Canada to access dignified and fulfilling work.

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The ACEP

The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) was established in 2010 to contribute to development of alternative and innovative policy interventions through high quality research, analysis and advocacy in the energy and extractives sector in Africa.

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