Organized in collaboration with the Nigerian National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) the UNESCO-UNEVOC Africa Forum in Abuja, Nigeria was held on 17 and 18 September 2013. The forum provided a platform for networking and dialogue involving international agencies, development partners, the private sector, regional UNEVOC centres, TVET institutions and other relevant TVET actors.

It was the third of five regional follow-ups to the Shanghai Consensus on developing and sharing policy and Promising Practices on youth and skills and greening TVET and brought together over one hundred and fifty participants from eighty-seven organizations, including UNEVOC centres in Africa, TVET institutions in the region, government agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community-based organizations (CBOs), international development partners, regional bodies and the private sector.