This was revealed yesterday in Dar es Salaam by the Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, Labour, Employment, Youth and People with Disability Antony Mavunde during the first graduation ceremony of the Youth Economic Empowerment (YEE).
The minister cautioned that there was a big challenge of unemployment due to lack of proper experience on the part of the youth, despite the implementation of MKUKUTA programme. “More than one million youths who complete primary and secondary school education every year fail to get opportunities to go for further studies, which is a challenge to the government. There is need to increase the number of vocational training centres,” he said.
Mr Mavunde noted that in working towards this end, the government has started turning vocational training centres into fully fledged universities because there is a great demand in the labour market for a qualified work force.
The graduation ceremony of 556 youths under the youth economic empowerment project, was held at the VETA Chang’ombe and was sponsored by Plan International Tanzania and other partners.
The Project Manager, Simon Ndembeka who spoke on behalf of Plan International Country Director Jurgen Huderson, said the aim of the project was to improve and increase access to employment opportunities and promote economic empowerment for marginalised young women and men aged 15 to 35 years in nine districts.
He said the project aims to equip and support 9,100 marginalised youths with technical and vocational skills.
“This is a three year project which started in April last year and will end in March 2018. It is implemented in Dar es Salaam, Morogoro, Pwani, Lindi, and Mtwara with funding support from the European Union at a cost of 3,874, 984 Euros,” according to Mr Ndembeka.
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