Every year World Youth Skills Day (WYSD) is celebrated on 15 July to recognise the strategic importance of equipping young people with the skills of employment, decent work, and entrepreneurship. The day also highlights the important role of skilled youth in addressing current and future global challenges. According to UNESCO, it is estimated that nearly 70% of the world's learners are affected by school closures across education levels. TVET institutions survey is jointly done by UNESCO, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the World Bank reported that distance learning is now the most common way of conveying skills with sizable difficulties regarding among others like curricula adaptation, trainee, and trainer preparedness, connectivity, or assessment and certification processes. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, currently, more than 1 in 6 young people are out of work. In such a time where young people are called upon to contribute to the recovery effort, they must be equipped with the skills to successfully manage upcoming challenges and therefore the resilience to alter to future disruptions. The theme for the 2020 World Youth Skills Day is "Skills for a Resilient Youth". The theme focuses on the impact of COVID-19 crisis on skills development and ways to explore strategies in response to the unfolding economic crisis. This will help in preparing young people to develop their capacities to respond to rapid changes in employment and entrepreneurship in such sectors that are hardest hit by the crisis. Therefore, we can say that this in the long term is to adapt skills development systems to changes in the economy of the world that the COVID-19 pandemic and recession will bring. In response to the impact of COVID-19 crisis on skills development, EWEI strongly believes putting more efforts in empowering young people, can better advance lasting peace, sustainable development, and human rights for all. @unesco @iloinfo @unicef @generationsforpeace @untrustfundevaw @ixmedia_ng #worldyouthskillsday2020 #wysd2020 https://www.instagram.com/p/CCqU9tdpWZr/?igshid=1xwlhvz36cdts