Table of Content -- Foreword -- Acknowledgment -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Objectives and Justification -- 1.2 Project Organization -- 1.3 Methodology -- 2 The Current State of Youth Employment in Africa -- 3 Policy Responses to the Youth Employment Crisis in Africa -- 3.1 The Adoption of the African Youth Charter -- 3.2 African Youth Decade Plan of Action, 2009-2018 -- 3.3 Financing Youth Employment Programmes: The July 2011 Summit -- 3.4. The Regional Coordination Mechanism (RCM): towards integrated programming on youth employment in Africa -- 4 Youth Employment Interventions in Africa -- 4.1 Geographic Distribution of Interventions -- 4.2 Thematic Areas of Interventions -- 4.3 Interventions Reaching out to Rural and Urban Areas -- 4.4 Strategic Approaches and Implementation Modalities -- 4.5 Partnerships among Implementing Organizations -- 4.6 Joint Programmes -- 4.7 Financing of Interventions -- 4.8 Targeted Beneficiaries of the Interventions -- 4.9 Special Priorities: to young people with disabilities -- 4.10 Employment Status of Beneficiaries -- 4.11 Special Priorities: Young women -- 4.12 Best Practice of the Interventions: Innovativeness -- 5 Impact Evaluation of Interventions -- 5.1 Result Based Evaluations -- 6 Conclusions and Recommendations -- References -- Annex I: List of Participating Organizations -- Annex II: Major source of finance of interventions and total outlay -- Annex III: Intervention Strategies and Implementation Modalities -- List of Tables -- Table 4.1: List of North African States and selected youth employment indicators and the status of interventions. -- Table 4.2: List of West African States and selected youth employment indicators and the status of interventions.

Table 4.3: List of East African States with selected youth employment indicators and the number of interventions. -- Table 4.4: List of Southern African States and selected youth employment indicators and the number of interventions. -- Table 4.5: List of Central African States and selected youth employment indicators and the number of interventions. -- Table 4.6: Thematic areas of the interventions in this mapping -- Table 4.7: Implementing organizations and partnerships in implementation. -- Table 4.8: Source of financing for the interventions -- Table 4.9: Analysis of financing per beneficiary -- Table 4.10: Educational status of beneficiaries -- Table 4.11: Number of interventions with special priority focus for youth with disabilities -- Table 4.12: The labour market status of the beneficiaries of the interventions -- Figure 4.12:Youth Labour Force Participation rates in Africa -- List of Figures -- Figure 4.1: Youth employment projects throughout Africa -- Figure 4.2: Youth Employment Interventions in Northern Africa -- Figure 4.3: Youth Employment Interventions in West Africa -- Figure 4.4: Youth Employment Interventions in East Africa -- Figure 4.5: Youth Employment Interventions in Southern Africa -- Figure 4.6: Youth Employment Interventions in Central Africa -- Figure 4.7: The quantity of youth employment interventions with varying thematic areas -- Figure 4.8: Geographic outreach of interventions -- Figure 4.9: The age group of the targeted beneficiaries of the youth employment interventions. -- Figure 4.10: Age of beneficiaries -- Figure 4.11: Percentage of interventions with specific priority for youth with disabilities -- Figure 4.12:Youth Labour Force Participation rates in Africa -- Figure 4.13: The female to male ratio out of the total beneficiaries of the interventions. -- Figure 4.14: Youth unemployment rates in Africa.

List of Boxes -- Box 2.1: The Youth-Led Revolution in Egypt -- Box 3.2: The African Youth Charter and A Rights-Based Approach in Youth Employment Interventions: -- Box 3.3: Aligning Youth Employment Interventions with the Plan of Action forthe AU Decade of Youth Empowerment and Development, 2009-2018 -- Box 3.4: Africa Union Youth Volunteer Corps (AUYVC) Programme andYouth Employment in Africa -- Box 3.5: Knowledge Products of UNECA on Youth Employment in Africa.