Thread:National Youth Policy and Advocacy (19)

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:


 * 1) Strengthening youth enterprise programmes incorporating small scale business management, basic skills and business training.
 * 2) Strengthening systems and structures for coordination and management of entrepreneurship.
 * 3) Developing and strengthening the market outlets for the youth’s products at all levels.
 * 4) Establish youth friendly credit lending facilities and micro-financing schemes.
 * 5) Strengthen NGO activities in youth enterprise development.
 * 6) Providing the youth with ‘START UP’ capital.
 * 7) Developing entrepreneurship skills among the youth.
 * 8) Establishing and maintaining an entrepreneurial Development Fund for skilled youths in order to contribute to their successful entrepreneurship.
 * 9) Developing entrepreneurship skills among the youth.
 * 10) Linking youth enterprises to multi-lateral companies as well as franchise holders.