International Youth Employment Specialist at FAO

The Regional Office for Africa (FAORAF) is responsible for leading FAO’s response to regional priorities for food security, agriculture and rural development through the identification, planning and implementation of FAO’s priority activities in the region. It ensures a multidisciplinary approach to programmes, identifies priority areas of action for the Organization in the Region and, in collaboration with departments and divisions at Headquarters, develops, promotes and oversees FAO’s strategic response to regional priorities. FAORAF’s Decent Employment in agri-food systems contributes to FAO’s strategic objective on reducing rural poverty and its new Strategic Framework (2022-2031) primarily through its ‘Better Life” aspiration and in particular BL2: Inclusive Rural Transformation.

FAORAF is implementing the Opportunities for Youth in Africa: Accelerating Jobs Creation in Agriculture and Agribusiness (OYA) programme. The OYA programme was developed jointly with the United N...