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ORF America and WRI India is hosting a webinar on the eve of World Environment Day to examine the evolving landscape of steel sector decarbonization. The discussion will draw on insights from two recent publications: ORF America’s ‘Special Report, Greening Steel in a Fragmented World: Aligning Markets, Technology, and Finance’, which examines the coordination challenges shaping global steel decarbonization, and WRI India’s Issue Brief, ‘Navigating Industrial Decarbonization in India: Learnings from Different Approaches and Best Practices’, which explores industrial transition pathways, including the steel sector, while highlighting lessons and best practices from India and global experiences across industries.

The webinar will explore how policymakers, industry leaders, and financial institutions can better align technology deployment, market creation, and enabling policy frameworks to accelerate steel decarbonization across the entire steel value chain, from raw material inputs and energy supply to production, procurement, and end-use demand.

Time: 06:30 AM

Professionals in impact measurement and management (IMM) come from a variety of professional backgrounds, some getting into IMM from a field-building or standard setting role, some from consulting, and others from Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL). A recent survey of IMM professionals within the impact investing industry provided evidence of these varying career paths – in fact, over 35% of respondents came to IMM with a background in MEL role. The survey also showed high levels of job satisfaction overall, but an eagerness for more growth opportunities, climate expertise, and data skills. In particular, those with a MEL background reported lower job satisfaction and weaker internal influence within their organizations.

Join this webinar featuring co-researchers Genevieve Edens, who got her IMM start at a social enterprise and a field-building organization, and Caitlin Rosser, who studied M&E in grad school and then got her IMM start through internal promotion, to unpack the data and offer insights into critical questions facing IMM professionals today. We will discuss MEL as an entry point into IMM, and how MEL skills and experience translate into an impact investing job. We will focus on what survey respondents said about career trajectory, technical expertise and data skills, and internal leadership.

The African Youth SDGs Summit is Africa’s largest youth forum on the Sustainable Development Goals. Launched in 2017, the Summit has evolved to bring together a multi-sector coalition of youth, development experts, government and UN entities, NGOs and the private sector to create the Africa we want together.

Once again, the African Youth Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Summit will be held both virtually and physically. We look forward to welcoming participants across Africa and around the world to connect and participate virtually, alongside a limited, in-person gathering of participants in Accra,Ghana.

Connect, network, and learn from a pan-African audience and contribute to an inspiring and constructive debate on the role of youth in the SDGs. Africa’s future is ours if we reach for it together. Are you in?