Migration policy framework for Africa and plan of action (2018 – 2030) be a driver for the structural transformation of Africa and constitute a demographic dividend, they need to be presented with the right opportunities and capacitated to work in the necessary economic sectors. Agenda 2063 states that the eradication of poverty will be achieved, inter alia, through investing in the productive capacities (skills and assets) of our people. It also calls for strengthening technical and vocational education and training through scaled up investments, establishment of a pool of high-quality TVET centres across Africa, foster(ing) greater links with industry and alignment to labour markets, with a view to improve the skills profile, employability and entrepreneurship of especially youth and women, and closing the skills gap across the continent; and building and expanding an African knowledge society through transformation and investments in universities, science, technology, research and innovation; and through the harmonization of education standards and mutual recognition of academic and professional qualifications. An African Accreditation Agency needs to be stablished, which will develop and monitor educational quality standards, with a view to expanding student and academic mobility across the continent. Student and labour mobility can defuse the pressure of the youth bulge and result in “brain gain” and “brain circulation” if the youth can gain new skills through education and labour mobility. SDG 4 Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all supports student mobility and stipulates in Target 4.b to by 2020, substantially expand globally the number of scholarships available to… African countries, for enrolment in higher education, including vocational training 34 and information and communications technology, technical, engineering and scientific programmes, in developed countries and other developing countries. The AU Free Movement of Persons Protocol and the African passport are flagship projects of Agenda 2063, which also calls for the abolishment of visa requirements for all African citizens in all African countries by 2018, and should spur student and labour mobility. The Free Movement Protocol will dovetail with the 2014 Revised Arusha Convention’s aim to promote academic mobility through the mutual recognition of higher education, as well as the AU’s 2007 framework for the harmonisation of higher education, the African Quality Rating Mechanism, which aims to strengthen African higher education institutions and ensure that they are globally competitive, and the Nyerere Programme, which grants scholarships to facilitate exchanges between African universities. To aid labour mobility the JLMP is also working on Labour Market Information Systems, skills forecasting and labour migration statistics which collectively support market driven skills development and skills pooling across the continent. SDG 17, Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development demand in Target 17.18 to by 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing States, to increase significantly the availability of high- quality, timely and reliable data, disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts.