National Youth Policy and Advocacy
Fragment of a discussion from Talk:Ipyet/Creating an Enabling Environment - Youth Policy and Advocacy
I am Gabriel Konayuma from Zambia working in the Department of Vocational Education and Training in th Ministry of Science, Technology and Vocational Training as a Senior Vocational Education and Training Officer. My duties include promotion of Entrepreneurship development.
Zambia does have a National Youth Policy of 2006. The key elements in the policy that promote youth entrepreneurship are:
- Strengthening youth enterprise programmes incorporating small scale business management, basic skills and business training.
- Strengthening systems and structures for coordination and management of entrepreneurship.
- Developing and strengthening the market outlets for the youth’s products at all levels.
- Establish youth friendly credit lending facilities and micro-financing schemes.
- Strengthen NGO activities in youth enterprise development.
- Providing the youth with ‘START UP’ capital.
- Developing entrepreneurship skills among the youth.
- Establishing and maintaining an entrepreneurial Development Fund for skilled youths in order to contribute to their successful entrepreneurship.
- Developing entrepreneurship skills among the youth.
- Linking youth enterprises to multi-lateral companies as well as franchise holders.
