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# ACET: The African Center for Economic Transformation \(ACET\)

> ACET is a pan\-African economic policy institute supporting Africa’s long\-term growth through transformation\.

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## Pages
- [Country Economic Transformation Outlooks](https://acetforafrica.org/our-work/cetos/): ACET's Country Economic Transformation Outlooks \(CETOs\) each focus on one particular country, assessing progress and identifying challenges impeding sustainable development\. The reports seek to influence policy debates and shape development agendas, with a particular focus on gender\-responsive policymaking for inclusive growth\.
- [Gender Compass for AI in Economic Policymaking](https://acetforafrica.org/gender-compass-for-ai-in-economic-policymaking/): An interactive tool by ACET to help policymakers embed gender in AI decision\-making for fairer, more inclusive and more effective economic outcomes\.
- [Homepage](https://acetforafrica.org/): ACET is a pan\-African economic policy institute supporting Africa’s long\-term growth through transformation\.
- [Youth Policy Lab 2026](https://acetforafrica.org/youth-policy-lab/): Be part of a continent\-wide challenge where young Africans step into the shoes of policymakers\.
- [Economic Management \& Governance](https://acetforafrica.org/our-work/our-issues/economic-management-governance/): Through our work on Economic Management \& Governance, we are establishing and sustaining growth with DEPTH as a leading economic development paradigm in Africa\.

## Posts
- [Africa’s New Debt Era: Structural Risks, Institutional Reform, and the Path to Fiscal Resilience](https://acetforafrica.org/research-and-analysis/reports-studies/reports/africas-new-debt-era-structural-risks-institutional-reform-and-the-path-to-fiscal-resilience/): Africa’s public debt challenge has re\-emerged as a pressing concern in global policy discourse\. During the 2010s, a complex mix of factors—including favorable commodity prices, greater access to international capital markets, and ambitious public investment programs—combined to drive sharp increases in borrowing\. By 2019, Africa’s public debt burden had nearly doubled from about 30 percent of GDP a decade earlier to over 60 percent\.
- [Financing TVET for economic transformation](https://acetforafrica.org/research-and-analysis/insights-ideas/financing-tvet-for-economic-transformation/): Africa’s skills challenge is not only about training more young people\. It is about financing technical and vocational education and training in ways that lead to real employment, productivity, and economic transformation\. Drawing on insights from ACET’s YES\-PACT Fireside Chat with Nurideen Mohammed of North Shore Apparel, this article argues that TVET must be treated as a bankable investment, with financing tied to measurable outcomes for workers, firms, and economies\.
- [The Rainbow Beneath Our Feet](https://acetforafrica.org/research-and-analysis/insights-ideas/the-rainbow-beneath-our-feet/): Africa’s minerals story should not end at extraction\. From gemstones and gold to design, craftsmanship, and entrepreneurship, the continent has an opportunity to turn natural wealth into skilled work, inclusive industries, and higher\-value markets\. Through the lens of jewelry and TVET, this feature explores what it will take to ensure women, young people, and local enterprises are not left at the margins of Africa’s value chains\.
- [A Job Is Not Enough](https://acetforafrica.org/research-and-analysis/insights-ideas/feature-article/a-job-is-not-enough/): Africa’s young people are working\. The problem is that too many of their jobs do not provide security, protection, or a pathway to advancement\. Drawing on emerging findings from ACET’s Regional Job Scan Study, this feature examines why Africa’s youth employment challenge is not only about creating more jobs, but about making work more secure, productive, and dignified\.
- [Making TVET Industry\-Ready: A Fireside Conversation with Constance Swaniker](https://acetforafrica.org/research-and-analysis/insights-ideas/feature-article/making-tvet-industry-ready-a-fireside-conversation-with-constance-swaniker/): That question anchored the inaugural Fireside Chat Series supported by the YES\-PACT Initiative\. The discussion built on ACET’s recent study, Building TVET Systems for Economic Transformation, and examined a persistent challenge across Africa: the gap between the skills training institutions produce and the skills industry actually needs\. To unpack this challenge, Mona Iddrisu, Head of ACET’s Youth Employment and Skills program, sat down with Constance Elizabeth Swaniker, Founder and President of the Design and Technology Institute \(DTI\) in Ghana\.

## ACET in the News
- [The Debt Problem Is Enormous\. Experts Say the System for Fixing It Is Broken](https://acetforafrica.org/acetinthenews/uncategorized/the-debt-problem-is-enormous-experts-say-the-system-for-fixing-it-is-broken/)
- [COP28: UN Climate Summit in Dubai ends](https://acetforafrica.org/acetinthenews/uncategorized/cop28-un-climate-summit-in-dubai-ends/)
- [Calls for reformed global financial architecture to reduce Africa's debt](https://acetforafrica.org/acetinthenews/uncategorized/calls-for-reformed-global-financial-architecture-to-reduce-africas-debt/)
- [Dr\. Ed Brown Discusses Africa's Economic Transformation with Benjamin Akakpo](https://acetforafrica.org/acetinthenews/uncategorized/dr-ed-brown-discusses-africas-economic-transformation-with-benjamin-akakpo/)
- [Point of View: A Conversation on Leadership](https://acetforafrica.org/acetinthenews/uncategorized/point-of-view-a-conversation-on-leadership/)

## Vacancies
- [Call for Expressions of Interest: Gender Mainstreaming Individual Consultant](https://acetforafrica.org/vacancies/gender-mainstreaming-consultant-eoi/): The African Center for Economic Transformation \(ACET\) is seeking an experienced consultant to conduct a gender and inclusion audit and develop a Gender Mainstreaming Framework, Policy, and Operational Toolkit to strengthen gender integration across its Research, Policy, and Programs portfolio\.
- [CALL FOR TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL PROPOSALS \- Consultancy Services: Country Economic Transformation Outlook \(CETO\) for Senegal – Research Firms](https://acetforafrica.org/vacancies/call-for-technical-and-financial-proposals-consultancy-services-country-economic-transformation-outlook-ceto-for-senegal-research-firms/): The CETO for Senegal will provide a comprehensive diagnostic of the country’s economic transformation progress, challenges, and future opportunities, using ACET’s Growth with DEPTH framework and the African Transformation Index \(ATI\)\. The study will apply a strong gender\-responsive lens and offer actionable policy recommendations to government and non\-state actors\.
- [Head of Economic Management and Governance](https://acetforafrica.org/vacancies/head-of-economic-management-and-governance/): ACET is seeking to recruit a Head of Economic Management and Governance \(EMG\) to grow and deliver this research portfolio\.
- [Monitoring \& Evaluation Specialist](https://acetforafrica.org/vacancies/monitoring-evaluation-specialist/)
- [Advocacy Lead](https://acetforafrica.org/vacancies/advocacy-lead/): ACET is seeking to recruit an Advocacy Lead to work with partners across the institution to build a strong advocacy architecture within ACET for stronger impact and influence on issues related to Africa’s economic transformation\.

## People
- [Rob Floyd](https://acetforafrica.org/our-people/rob-floyd/): Rob Floyd served as an ACET Director and Senior Advisor from July 2017 to July 2021\. In that role he supported ACET's efforts to develop strategic partnerships, enhance its profile and deepen the ACET business model\.
- [George Boateng](https://acetforafrica.org/our-people/george-boateng/): George Boateng holds a Master of Science Degree in Rural Development and Management \(International Development Studies\) from the China Agricultural University \(CAU\) in Beijing, China\.
- [Richmond Commodore](https://acetforafrica.org/our-people/richmond-commodore/): Richmond Commodore currently works as a Senior Economist at ACET\. In this role, he has managed and supported multiple projects in the areas of public finance, organizational restructuring, financial inclusion, migration, development finance, and trade across over six African countries\.
- [John Asafu\-Adjaye](https://acetforafrica.org/our-people/john-asafu-adjaye/): Dr\. John Asafu\-Adjaye is Senior Fellow at ACET tasked with leading research work under the economic management and governance program\. Prior to joining ACET he held a position as an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia\.
- [Habtamu Tesfaye Edjigu](https://acetforafrica.org/our-people/habtamu-tesfaye-edjigu/): Habtamu Edjigu is an Economist, currently working at the African Center for Economic Transformation \(ACET\) as an Economist with the Youth Employment and Skills team\. He conducts research, prepare reports, and formulate plans to address economic problems, with a focus on education, skills and labor market issues, working in collaboration with other ACET researchers\.

## Events
- [YES\-PACT Fireside Chat \- What Does It Take to Make TVET Work in Fragile Contexts?](https://acetforafrica.org/event/yes-pact-fireside-chat-what-does-it-take-to-make-tvet-work-in-fragile-contexts/)
- [Leveraging Africa’s Financial Resources to Drive Development](https://acetforafrica.org/event/leveraging-africas-financial-resources-to-drive-development/)
- [Leveraging Capital, Strengthening Agency: African Ownership and the Future of Development Finance](https://acetforafrica.org/event/african-ownership-development-finance/)
- [Leveraging AI for Public Use: Lessons from Government\-Led Innovation](https://acetforafrica.org/event/leveraging-ai-for-public-use-lessons-from-government-led-innovation/)
- [ACET at the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings](https://acetforafrica.org/event/acet-at-the-world-bank-imf-spring-meetings/)

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- [Green Industrial Transformation](https://acetforafrica.org/issues/green-industrial-transformation/)
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