Who is invited & community

The final concept is clear: this is not a club for a lucky few. We are actively calling in and expecting:

• Presidential Skilling Centres and similar national and district skilling platforms: bring your best trainers and your most ambitious young people
• Universities (public and private): deans, career services, and student leaders who can turn Summit signals into new courses, placements, and research
• TVET, vocational schools, and technical colleges: the people who make skills “real” on the workshop floor
• Other training centres and certified providers: short courses, digital academies, industry-led programmes
• Young people not in formal study: NEET youth, job seekers, early-stage entrepreneurs, gig workers, and those ready for a first formal opportunity
• Private sector and investors who need a reliable pipeline, want to test co-investment in training, and are ready to name commitments
• Development partners, foundations, and embassies who already fund skills and jobs and want a transparent platform for co-design

If you are not sure you “fit,” you probably do. Register your interest and tell us your story in one line. We will help you find the right track.

Finishing a course and still not finding a fair job, or being stuck in work that does not use your head and heart, is exhausting. The Summit starts from that truth. We are here to shrink the gap between what is taught, what employers need, and what young people need to live in dignity, especially for young women, rural young people, and people who are usually last in the queue for a chance.

Officially, the goal is to raise the share of young people in gainful work and in enterprises that can grow, and to back that with policy, finance, and programmes we can measure and repeat.

Think expos, one-to-one info, and hands-on stalls from government programmes, employers, and skilling providers, plus a serious online lane for those who cannot travel, organised so you are not watching from the sidelines but part of the same programme. The idea in the CDF concept is simple: you should leave with clearer next steps, a few new numbers in your phone, and a better picture of what is hiring, what is training, and what is fair in your part of the country.

Institutions matter here. When universities and TVET colleges show up with their students, or Presidential Skilling Centres and training academies bring a cohort, we can match people to opportunities at scale, and young people can see that skilling is respected, not a second-best option to a degree alone.

Groups are gold: a watch party in a skilling centre, a campus hall, or a district youth hub. If you are a student body, a youth council, or a community organisation, contact the secretariat with your name, area, and rough numbers. We are building channels so you can feed in before the Summit and hold leaders accountable after, as the concept also envisions in post-Summit dialogues.

Register your interest and join the email list for practical updates on registration, online access, and on-site services as we get closer to May 2026.