Employment & Entrepreneurship
Recognising the need for meaningful youth development, TransUnion’ s GCC Africa partnered with organisations like the Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator to combat youth unemployment through targeted skills development initiatives. The partnerships aim to empower South African youth by providing access to high-quality learnership programmes that focus on equipping participants with fundamental yet soughtafter skills across industries with high demand for talent.
“ By structuring interventions to be both accessible and demand-led; young people become equipped to enter the labour market, contributing to inclusive economic growth,” notes Victoria Duncan, Head of Research at Harambee.
“ Our collaboration with Harambee specifically, is about unlocking opportunities for young people to break into the job market and thrive,” adds Mfokazi.“ This partnership allows us to provide so much more than training; we’ re closing the skills gap and facilitating access to sustainable employment within our own environment and beyond.”
Over the years, the partnerships have successfully enrolled almost 300 young individuals in the GCC Africa’ s learnership programme, which focuses on critical areas such as IT systems support, cybersecurity, networking, operations, customer and sales support, compliance, and data analytics.
Partnerships such as these highlight the vital role that organisations play in combating youth unemployment. By investing in skills development and empowering young people, these initiatives contribute to individual growth as well as the broader South African economy. At the same time, companies have the opportunity to build pipelines of committed and loyal workers who can evolve and grow with the business. It’ s a mutually beneficial, symbiotic relationship.
“ Upskilling the youth isn’ t only about solving today’ s unemployment challenges; it’ s an opportunity to create longterm high-impact change for our country and its people,” says Mfokazi.
We’ re closing the skills gap and facilitating access to sustainable employment within our own environment and beyond.
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