My name is Adams Peter Eloyi; National Programme Director Youth Programme on Agriculture and Entrepreneurship Development [YPAED Cooperative Society] and a Mentor to the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP).
My experience on the specific challenges young people faced in rural communities in Nigeria are as follows.
1. Marginalization from Government Employment initiative.
2. Corruption in the implemention of Government policies and programme on rural youth employment.
3. Lack of Access and awareness of information on Government Employment programmes.
4. Lack of capacity and training opportunities on decent work.
5. Lack of Access to market.
6. Lack of quality input.
HOW TO ADDRESS THIS CHALLENGES;
1. Increasing transparency in the implementation of youth employment programmes.
2. Enforce rural youth participation and merit based recruitment.
3. Participatory approach in the design and implementation of youth employment.
4. Increase awareness in rural communities on youth employment in Agriculture and decent work.
5. Introduce anti corruption and monitoring and evaluation measures on youth employment.
6. Improve access to finance and market for rural youth.
7. Establish vocational training centers in rural communities.
8. Publicity and wide dissemination on government policies and programmes in rural communities.
9. Lack of Data on rural youth;conduct annual needs assessment of rural youth.
OUR ORGANIZATION MOST BINDING CAPACITY CHALLENGE.
1. Institutional capacity development in Monitoring and Evaluation.
2. Infrastructure development.
WHY WE ARE CONCERNED.
1. The rising rural youth unemployment is affecting food security and socio economic development of Nigeria. Therefore our concern to compliment the effort of government and the international community to bridging the gap and access of information and education of rural youth in descent work.
Adams Peter Eloyi