CEO
Punjab Skills Development Fund (PSDF), Jawad Khan, spoke at the GSG Global
Impact Summit 2020 in the session on ‘Upskilling the Unemployed’ to discuss the
importance of impact investment in training and an outcome-based approach to
re-skilling and up-skilling programmes targeting the vulnerable and unemployed.
The
GSG Summit attracts changemakers from across the world, to work on a just and
impact-led recovery that benefits all people and the planet. This year’s
virtual summit focused on how to place impact at the heart of COVID-19 response
and recovery and bring forward solutions that can help rally and re-build. The
3 day summit, spanning 9th to 11th September, brought forward influential
speakers from 32 countries across the world, from the public and private
sector, such as Achim Steiner, The Administrator of the UNDP, Emmanuel
Faber, CEO at Danone, Jessica Alba, founder at The Honest Company and
Ibukun Awosika, Chair at the First Bank of Nigeria.
The
2nd day of the Summit included the session on ‘Upskilling the
Unemployed’ which looked at the adverse economic impact of Covid-19, and
ideated on impact investment and outcome-based vehicles that could be promising
to achieve scale and maximum social outcomes.
At
the session, CEO PSDF, Jawad Khan joined as one of the prime speakers on global
labour market trends and the challenges and opportunities brought forward by
the Covid-19 pandemic, and focused on how ‘pay for success’ financing and
schemes can help ensure a rapid and fair recovery. He further expanded on
PSDF’s involvement in leading a number of cross-sector partnerships in the skilling
space, such as the National Accelerator on closing the skills gap (Parwaaz), that
identifies high-growth sectors and declining and emerging job roles, to skill,
re-skill and upskill the current and future workforce.
Other
speakers at the session included Annie Plancher, Vice President of Staff and
Strategy at Social Finance US, Maha Keramane, Head of Microfinance and
Social Entrepreneurship from BNP Paribas, and Dr. Swapan Bala, Professor
at University of Dhaka.
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