Innovation,
modern ideas have been identified as the only key to engender improved jobs and
sustainable income as joblessness among young people is one of the most
pressing social, economic and political challenges facing Africa in the 21st
Century, NaijaAgroNet reports.
African
Development Bank's Special Envoy on Gender, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi stated
this in Abidjan at a consultative workshop organised by the Bank's Agriculture
and Agro-Industry Department in collaboration with the Office of the Special
Envoy on Gender and the Human Development Department.
The workshop NaijaAgroNet gathered, was designed to deliberate on a proposed
innovative programme titled “Empowering Novel Agri-Business-Led Employment for
Youth in African Agriculture (ENABLE Youth)”.
The programme once developed, will be implemented in 20 Regional Member
Countries of the Bank under the coordination of the International Institute of
Tropical Agriculture (IITA).
The
programme will be designed to reinforce the roles of disenfranchised young
African adults through a comprehensive outreach approach involving providing
information, life-skills education (effective and functional job training),
proven technologies and opportunities to at least 800,000 youth in 20 RMCs.
“Over
10 million young people in Africa are entering the job market each year.
Despite the strong growth performance of African economies over the recent
years, the continent has failed to create the number of jobs needed to absorb
these young people,” said Fraser-Moleketi.
NaijaAgroNet reliably learnt that the meeting was attended by key
players in the agricultural sector such as the Alliance for a Green Revolution
in Africa (AGRA), Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), and West
and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development
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