This week Insight's must reads are: World Skills Day - tell us how a skill changed your life World Youth Skills Day is held each year on the 15 July, to raise awareness about the importance of investing in youth skills development, Building a Digital Financial Services (DFS) Ecosystem Through Government to People Payments (G2P) Pilots — PART 1 An introduction to a series in which Salton Massally of iDT Labs shares his experience of leading a consortium of DFS stakeholders in

World Youth Skills Day is held each year on the 15 July, to raise awareness about the importance of investing in youth skills development, Education, skills and jobs are rated high in people's priorities for development. In the global My World 2015 Survey, young people up to the age of 30 across all regions and education levels rated education as their number one priority, with better job opportunities being the third priority. Yet globally, youth represent 25% of the total

Various terms have been used to describe the fields that make up TVET. These include apprenticeships, vocational education, technical education, workforce or workplace education amongst others, but essentially TVET it is the acquisition of knowledge and skills for the world of work. With around 100 registered TVET institutions, Sierra Leonean employers should arguably have no problem finding suitable candidates to fill their vacancies. Nevertheless, according to research that