Unemployment has been re-affirmed as one of the recently threatening social and economic despair facing youths in the country.
According to the International Labour Organization (ILO) statistics recently availed to The Guardian on Sunday around 66 per cent of male and female aged 15-24 are engaged in agriculture, cultivating on small scale.
The smaller proportions of them are unskilled, while others are skilled manual with few working as domestic servants or hawkers.
The ILO report cited the trend as attributed to steady population growth and limited opportunities to access quality education.
The ILO Project Coordinator Mkuku Louis said his organization launched an advocacy project dubbed ‘Kazi nje nje’ (open vacancies) a five year educative project aimed at inculcating the experience of entrepreneurship among the youths.
The project expects to come to an end this year with an achievement of ensuring entrepreneurship education is included in the national curriculum.
“Unemployment issue can be solved through the introduction of entrepreneurship skills to the majority of population that teaches them to be independent; he said adding that the project was also being implemented in Uganda and Kenya but with different activities”
According to Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey of 2010, statistics of 2010, only 28% of young women and 37 per cent of young men aged between 15-24 have attended secondary school or higher education, and 78% of young women and 83% of young men age 15-24 were literate.
He said ILO’s first task was to promote entrepreneurship culture, in which they aimed at encouraging youth to understand self employment, where they can develop small enterprise business.
He also said entrepreneurship studies in primary and secondary schools curriculum would play a vital role in promoting the development through enhancement provision of business environment services in the country.
One of the beneficiaries of the project Maximillian William, a welder, said the project has equipped him with skills making house gates and is now able to benefit from entrepreneurship trainings.
ILO has so far trained 386 primary and secondary school teachers on business entrepreneurship skills who teach entrepreneurship in almost seven regions and 55 districts in the country.
SOURCE: GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY
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