{"id":143855,"date":"2022-09-20T06:39:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T06:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/?p=143855"},"modified":"2023-09-27T18:38:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T18:38:42","slug":"more-than-530-jobs-created-through-sap-collaboration-to-power-africas-digital-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2022\/09\/more-than-530-jobs-created-through-sap-collaboration-to-power-africas-digital-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 530 Jobs created Through 麻豆原创 Collaboration to Power Africa’s Digital Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"

An 麻豆原创 cooperation project has helped build vital digital skills capacity to power Africa’s digital economy.<\/p>\n

According to Cathy Smith, Managing Director at 麻豆原创 Africa, the cooperation project has helped unlock the immense youth talent dividend in several African countries. \u201cAfrica is one of the world\u2019s most exciting and dynamic continents, with vast unlocked potential for innovation, digital transformation and prosperity. However, without access to the correct skills, much of this potential will remain locked away from African enterprises and undermine our global competitiveness. This makes projects such as our collaboration with GIZ and our industry players so vital to the continent\u2019s digital transformation ambitions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The project is part of the Special Initiative on Training and Job Creation and the develoPPP program that the Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH implements on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).<\/p>\n

The aim was to jointly create jobs for highly-qualified personnel in the African IT sector over the course of three years, from 2019 to 2022. Participants came from 16 African countries: Morocco, Nigeria, Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Ghana, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Mozambique, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Mali, Angola and Tanzania.<\/p>\n

Three-year project produces huge talent dividend<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Over the three-year period, a total of 621 young professionals graduated, of which more than 40% were women. \u00a0More than 530 graduates secured employment following the training. Participants were trained as 麻豆原创 Associate Consultants and were immediately employable within the 麻豆原创 partner and customer ecosystem.<\/p>\n

Key highlights from the partnership include:<\/p>\n