{"id":62055,"date":"2023-12-08T19:38:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T19:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=62055"},"modified":"2023-12-08T19:34:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T19:34:52","slug":"govt-urges-private-sector-to-employ-more-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/govt-urges-private-sector-to-employ-more-youth","title":{"rendered":"Govt urges private sector to employ more youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. <\/strong><\/span><b>Government has urged the private sector to employ more youth to reduce the skyrocketing unemployment.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>More than 75 per cent of Uganda\u2019s 46million people comprises youth. While the general unemployment stands at 4.28 per cent, youth unemployment rate is at 6.58 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government expects the private sector to provide the young people with more opportunities for employment, offering training and apprenticeship opportunities and promoting entrepreneurship development,\u201dstate minister for Youth and Children Affairs, Sarah Mateke said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe international NGOs are expected to integrate youth concerns in their programming and mobilise resources for youth programmes and support youth entrepreneurship development,\u201d added Mateke, who represented Vice President Jessica Alupo at the opening of the two-day GOAL Uganda Annual Learning Conference in Kampala.<\/p>\n<p>GOAL, an international humanitarian and development agency focussed on building community resilience and support for socio-economic development, organised the conference under the theme \u201cTransitioning more youth into work: Scalable interventions for expansion and sustaining youth employment in agribusiness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John Alinda, a youth from Hoima District, said while the minister has good suggestions, ensuring mind-set change among youth is important.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should help my fellow youth to not only look for jobs after graduation but to also apply the knowledge they got in school by creating jobs for themselves. This will be realised with access to friendly loans to enhance full participation of the youth in the economy, especially in agribusiness, which is the backbone of this country,\u201d he suggested.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Bukenya, the country director of Mastercard Foundation in Uganda, said they are partnering with GOAL to ensure that young people are skilled, embrace agribusiness to have access to dignified and fulfilling employment, and access to markets for their products.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Abim District Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) Samuel Bigirwa Kaliisa said: \u201cWe must tap into the youth to embrace agriculture. This will not only reduce unemployment but also secure our future in food production.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>GOAL Uganda director Dawit Beyene noted that his organisation is committed to continue learning to better deliver to Ugandan youth through the Markets for Youth Programme to engage in agribusiness and profit from it.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the programme has so far reached more than 260,000 young people since 2020- with services to support them transition into work and access markets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. Government has urged the private sector to employ more youth to reduce the skyrocketing unemployment. More than 75 per cent of Uganda\u2019s 46million people comprises youth. 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