Commitment title:

Improved CP Data systems and mechanisms for Knowledge management

Commitment description:

6. The government of the Republic of South Sudan commits to draw on demographic diversity to drive economic growth and achieve sustainable development, by:
a) Putting in place, by end of 2020, functional youth-led mechanisms for meaningful engagement and participation of youth on issues pertaining to their lives considering that they are the majority of population in South Sudan
b) Establishing, in the 2021/2022 FY, a Youth Enterprise Fund to build youth entrepreneurship and skills in line with Pillar 1 of the AU Road-map on Demographic Dividend: Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship
c) Establishing incubation spaces and platforms for youth innovation and skills testing/building in the cities of Juba, Malakal and Wau by end of 2021.
d) Ensuring that the new National Development Strategy (2021/22 – 2023/24) is anchored, among other things, on harnessing the Demographic Dividend
e) Putting in place, by 2021, mechanisms for availing up-to-date data to inform decision making including conducting the National Population and Housing Census.
f) Establishing a functional mechanism, in the President’s Office, for periodic review of implementation of the regional ICPD related frameworks particularly the commitments in the Addis Ababa Declaration on Population and Development and the AU Road-map on Demographic Dividend as part of SDG implementation and monitoring.
g) Achieving universal primary and secondary education by 2030

Mode of engagement:

• Policy and guidance
  Harnessing Demographic Dividend and ensuring availability of data for planning