Thread:National Youth Policy and Advocacy (11)

Am Rodgers Mulenga from Zambia.

According to the Zambian ‘National Youth Policy – 2006’ point number 3.3.2.1 0n page 16 and 17, “youth Entrepreneurship Development is aimed at promoting sustainable livelihood among youth in order to reduce poverty, and enhance living standards.

Youth entrepreneurship has also been recognized as an integral part of development. Entrepreneurship development can be attained through enterprise training, micro financing, provision of market outlets and advisory services as well as research.” As the Policy state I looked at some elements that promote entrepreneurship on specific objectives;
 * To provide financial and material resources for entrepreneurship development.
 * To promote enterprise training in order to give an opportunity to the youth to improve their livelihoods.

And some of the strategies that have been put in place to promote entrepreneurship are
 * V) Develop and strengthen the market outlets for the youth’s products at all levels
 * vii) Establish youth friendly credit lending facilities and micro-financing schemes
 * x) Strengthen NGO activities in youth enterprise development
 * xiii) Provide the youth with ‘START UP’ capital
 * xiv) Develop entrepreneurship skills among the youth.
 * xv) Establish and maintain an entrepreneurial Development Fund for skilled youths in order to contribute to their successful entrepreneurship.


 * I just saw some contribution from my Zambian Brother, who is looking at a document that is very far from the current one please you can walk to the MSYCD HQ they will indeed provide one Youth Policy-2006 for free or any provincial office in the country.


 * I have seen some these strategies being implemented by our government, there are funds such as CEEC which has a youth component which supports the objective "i." above the Ministry of Sport, Youth and Child Development also has a Youth Fund which some of the youths last year managed to access. This year I understand that the budget was upgraded to about K5bn. this in itself is promoting entreprenurship.