Youth Employment Programme
Ministry of Youth Permanent Secretary calls for Gender Responsive Youth Employment Strategies
Youth and Sport Permanent Secretary Ms. Agnes Musunga has called for accelerated efforts in promoting gender responsive youth employment strategies.
She was speaking in Ndola on Monday 28th September when she officiated at the opening of the national gender mainstreaming training for 20 Youth Resource Center Managers and 10 leaders from key youth organization.
The workshop which is running until Friday 2nd October has been organized with support from the ILO’s Youth Employment Project and the Gender Equality and Diversity Branch of Geneva. The ultimate aim of the training is to promote and facilitate the achievement of gender equality in youth employment. The immediate objective of the training is to ensure that gender is mainstreamed in youth employment by developing the capacity of the resource centres managers in gender responsive interventions as well as providing training in leadership development and personal mastery to the youth leaders.
Ms. Musunga stated that the training was essential towards the implementation of the recently launched National Youth Policy and the Action Plan on Youth Empowerment and Employment as gender is a cross cutting issue.
She further thanked the ILO for convening the training as it would go a long way in improving service delivery at the youth resource centers and also equip the center managers with the appropriate skills.
The Ministry of Youth and Sport implements skills development programmes through the seventeen (17) existing and operational Youth Resource Centres located in every Province of Zambia.
Young people, who are being trained in the resource centers are expected to become self-employed by being supported with start-up capital to engage in production activities that will enable them provide goods and services within their local communities to earn a living for themselves. Additionally, the centers run commercial production units in order to generate extra financial resources and provide skilled youth with necessary industrial experience prior to setting up their self-employment ventures.
The training which is being led by the ILO gender specialist from the Decent Work Team (DWT) in Pretoria, Ms. Mwila Chigaga is expected to produce gender mainstreaming action plans developed by the resource centers managers for immediate implementation.
The Youth Employment Project in Zambia has placed gender mainstreaming as a priority in its interventions. This is in light of the International Labour Conference Resolution of 2012 on Youth Employment Crisis which has a Call for Action and one of the guiding principles of the Resolution is to ensure that all programmes and policies respect the rights of young workers and are gender-sensitive and to open more occupations for young women
The workshop which is running until Friday 2nd October has been organized with support from the ILO’s Youth Employment Project and the Gender Equality and Diversity Branch of Geneva. The ultimate aim of the training is to promote and facilitate the achievement of gender equality in youth employment. The immediate objective of the training is to ensure that gender is mainstreamed in youth employment by developing the capacity of the resource centres managers in gender responsive interventions as well as providing training in leadership development and personal mastery to the youth leaders.
Ms. Musunga stated that the training was essential towards the implementation of the recently launched National Youth Policy and the Action Plan on Youth Empowerment and Employment as gender is a cross cutting issue.
She further thanked the ILO for convening the training as it would go a long way in improving service delivery at the youth resource centers and also equip the center managers with the appropriate skills.
The Ministry of Youth and Sport implements skills development programmes through the seventeen (17) existing and operational Youth Resource Centres located in every Province of Zambia.
Young people, who are being trained in the resource centers are expected to become self-employed by being supported with start-up capital to engage in production activities that will enable them provide goods and services within their local communities to earn a living for themselves. Additionally, the centers run commercial production units in order to generate extra financial resources and provide skilled youth with necessary industrial experience prior to setting up their self-employment ventures.
The training which is being led by the ILO gender specialist from the Decent Work Team (DWT) in Pretoria, Ms. Mwila Chigaga is expected to produce gender mainstreaming action plans developed by the resource centers managers for immediate implementation.
The Youth Employment Project in Zambia has placed gender mainstreaming as a priority in its interventions. This is in light of the International Labour Conference Resolution of 2012 on Youth Employment Crisis which has a Call for Action and one of the guiding principles of the Resolution is to ensure that all programmes and policies respect the rights of young workers and are gender-sensitive and to open more occupations for young women