ILO Zambia/Understanding Youth Employment/Entrepreneurship

The right policies and structures should be in place to make it easier for young women and men to start and run an enterprise to provide more and better jobs. This is one of the approaches that has been identified as requiring special attention in order to encourage enterprise development amongst young people. A lot of youth employment programmes recently have placed emphasis on entrepreneurship, however, in order to promote the entrepreneurial spirit amongst young people, certain structures should be put in place both at macro and micro levels in the economy.