Today I will be sharing with you my proposed line of actions relating to Youth Entrepreneurship. Please see the poster attached for a summary of this agenda.
1. ENTREPRENEURSHIP: it is a common knowledge that youth empowerment does not rally around education alone, as youth with educational experience sometimes turn out to be unemployed due to relatively low number of white-collar job opportunities. However, complementing that with entrepreneurial skills will give those youth an immediate job to do, and will give them an alternative career options in their lives.
i. VOCATIONAL SKILLS TRAINING: the CYC under our leadership will agitate for inclusion of vocational skills training as a compulsory school module or an extra school programme which students must attend, so that they can acquire different professional skills, which they can develop independently after schools. These skills acquisitions should be made opened to all youth freely. It shall also be complemented by supporting and encouraging youth that have already acquired vocational skills to share their talents and experiences with other young people through short term workshops.
ii. INTER-COUNTRY ENTREPRENEURSHIP EXCHANGE: a proposal will be made for exchange of youth talents and skills within commonwealth countries. Youth with unique entrepreneurial skills in one country will be sponsored to travel to another country to train other youth, and share the experiences and challenges they faced in their career. However, the transferred skills have to be found marketable in the receiving country before such inter-country entrepreneurial exchange takes place. This will go a long way in expanding the available skills options for the youth.
iii. YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP COMPETITION: After acquisition of professional skills, youth will need to be empowered to establish their own businesses. As such, youth led committee will be constituted to call, receive and assess business proposals from young people. The selected business proposals will be presented to some of the youth development partners for sponsorship.
iv. COMMONWEALTH ANNUAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARD DINNER:
Every year, the CYC under our leadership will constitute a youth led committee that will coordinate and administer award of excellence to outstanding young people in entrepreneurship. This will help inspire other youth to embrace entrepreneurship.
Please feel free to contribute your inputs.
Thank you
Ahmed Adamu,
for CHAIRPERSON,
Commonwealth Youth Council.
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