To address the growing rate of youth unemployment and underemployment in the Niger Delta, The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND), a Non-Governmental Organisation intervening in the nine states of the Niger Delta, will be training about 1, 000 young men and women to be sustainably employed in the agricultural and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sectors under its Niger Delta Youth Employment Pathways (NDYEP) project funded by the Ford Foundation.
NDYEP grants award and signing ceremony held at the Foundation’s Economic Development Centre in Port Harcourt on September 18, 2018. PIND has provided small grants to nine eligible partner organizations for innovative, demand-led youth training and support for equipping youth with relevant skills for work and job creation.
Over the next six months, the grantees will implement technical, business and employability skills trainings that demonstrate actual potential for job readiness. These will include opportunities for internships and job placements through entrepreneurship for trainees in three pilot states of Abia, Akwa Ibom and Rivers States of the Niger Delta.
The grants have been made available in two intervention areas of ‘Bright Future Grant’ for the ICT sector and the ‘Jump Starting Aquaculture Enterprise for Youth in Agriculture’. The target group are the unemployed youth of the three pilot states with a primary focus on young male and female school leavers between ages 16 and 26. This will include the young people living in rural areas, women and persons living with disabilities.
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