ANSG To Empower Beneficiaries Of One Youth, Two Skills Programme
The empowerment of participants at the pilot phase of the One youth, two skills programs of the Governor Chukwuma Soludo administration will commence by August, 2023.
The Commissioner for Youth, Mr. Patrick Aghamba disclosed this in Awka following the successful completion of the pilot phase of the scheme.
The “One Youth, Two Skills” scheme, which is being implemented in CBN-certified EDIs in partnership with UNIZIK Business School Awka, IDK, ITF, Federal Polytechnic Oko, among other agencies, is to assist young people in acquiring requisite skills to start their own businesses or find employment.
Four hundred Master Trainers were engaged in providing training to participants in a wide range of skills at four hundred training centers in all the twenty-one Local Government Areas of Anambra State.
Over five thousand youths were successfully trained on various entrepreneurship initiative, tailored into twenty different programmes .
The scheme which is a systematic evolution of Igbo apprenticeship models has a well-designed human capital development strategy that aims to transform lives and fortunes, reduce unemployment drastically, solve the problem of insecurity as well as enhance the GDP of the country.
The Commissioner explained that the initiative is sequential and needs assessment, among others and will commence immediately, to beat their time frame.
He noted that already, the Ministry has collected over one hundred thousand applications in its data bank for the first stage of the scheme, noting that beyond the closure of registration, another registration opportunity will start by December this year and January next year.
Commissioner Aghamba who disclosed that the first stage of the scheme will witness fifty-two skill areas, against the pilot stage which had twenty skills; something he described as a first in the state.
The Commissioner explained that the training was done simultaneously in twenty-two certified entrepreneurship development institutes across the twenty-one Local Government Areas of the State, in line with the Governor Soludo’s Community base approach to development.
