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Africa, the world’s youngest region, continues to be confronted with high levels of unemployment, vulnerable employment and working poverty with little signs of potential recovery in 2017. Research reveals that youth unemployment rate in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to continue on its downward trajectory, which began in 2012, reaching 10.9 percent in 2016 and decreasing slightly to 10.8 in the following year. However, the unemployment outlook in youth in major countries of the region remains quite mixed. In South Africa, more than half of all active youth are expected to remain unemployed in 2016, representing the highest youth unemployment in the region.  Moreover, while the youth labor force participation rate is highest in Sub-Saharan Africa at 54.2 percent, the regions enrolment rate in secondary and tertiary education is the lowest amongst all regions (International Labor Organization, August 2016)