Theory question 104
Youth EmpowermentSection B: Emerging Issues in the Society
(a) Define Youth empowerment.
(b) List three youth empowerment skills.
(c) State three efforts of government towards youth empowerment.
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(a) Youth empowerment is the process of giving young people skills, knowledge, resources and opportunities to become self-reliant and contribute to society.
(b) Any three: tailoring/fashion design; hairdressing/barbing; ICT/computer skills; carpentry; welding; farming/agriculture; catering; shoe-making; vehicle repairs.
(c) Any three (as at 2016): National Directorate of Employment (NDE) skills programmes; SURE-P graduate internship scheme; YouWiN! business plan competition; N-Power (2016); NYSC Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED); Bank of Industry/SMEDAN loans; vocational and technical schools.
Name real government programmes in (c).