One Youth, Two Skills’ … smart solution for tackling unemployment

…Giving vital toolkits to expectant youths

OVER 10,000 were targeted to benefit startups for smart tec in its first phase while 140,000 more are projected to come within its overall catchment. 

This is no fluke. Rather it is a policy meticulously captured in the Transition Committee Report (TCR) to drive Anambra’s new projection of creating at least 1,000 young millionaires every year as a strategic compass in navigating the agenda for a prosperous, livable homeland by the time its multiplier effect begins to rub off on the wider spectrum.

Perhaps, two or three parameters standing it out as a flagship among similar programs, both here in Anambra and elsewhere, connect to give it a headstart.

Hence, apart from showing a zeal to set forth at dawn by hatching its conception right from inception of the new administration, dotting every ‘I’ and crossing every ‘T’ in a cerebral devotion to details while taking off indicates an uncompromising commitment to transforming its primary targets into a centrepiece of the new socio-economic development agenda.

This explains why experts say it has not only delivered beyond projected take-off goals but has every potentials of a success story in social service delivery that will ultimately bring other states in the federation to Anambra for mentorships and refine traditional Igbo apprenticeship economics into global market

  This prefaces Anambra’s one youth, two skills program.

Providing insights into strategic toolkits in the program, Anambra State Commissioner for Youth Empowerment, Mr. Patrick Aghamba explained it as “first of its kind to co-opt volunteer master trainers or business owners with track record numbering 470, decentralised training centres to ensure there’s one in all the 21 local government areas rather than lumping everybody together in a hardly cohesive bunch, mandatory four-seven- month how-to training within the business environment, periodic inspection visit for progress and challenge review-assessment as a template for monitoring compliance with set standards by training centres, involving community leaders in the business of training centres within their localities.”

   Yet, even if cynics may choose to understand the commissioner’s explanation as marking one’s examination scripts, more takes from indigenous Anambra business brands or doyens dislodges every cynicism.

Hence, an Awgbu, Orumba North L.G.A-born youth developer and industrialist, Chief Walter Chigbo believes the program will deliver.

Speaking in an interview on activities marking Gov. Chukwuma Soludo’s one year in office, the Lagos-based marine and agro-allied mogul said “government has this time provided incentives that raises the bar of youth inclusion from empowerment to development and this creates new motivation for us to key into the scheme knowing that everyone stands to gain from youths productively engaged in marketable and entrepreneurial skillsets.  

than ‘share the money’ mentality inculcated in them by previous administrations, the new scheme is a shift in paradigm because attractive but lucrative vocations in auto, ICT, properties, fashion and style industries, as well as cosmetology and hospitality sectors, among others were incorporated into it.”

  However, Chigbo advises that “all that is remaining is for government to bring more master trainers on board during subsequent phases of the program implementation and Anambra would have found digital solution to youth unemployment and restiveness fueling nationwide uptick in kidnapping, banditry, internet scamming among others.”

  From this, it is crystal clear that one youth, two skills is a seasoned template of putting Anambra’s today and future in youthful hands by teaching good-to-go youths how to fish rather than giving them fish under phantom charities of sharing bags of rice in ’employment’ facades perennially confining youths to waiting for a tomorrow that may never come.

  Perhaps, two or three parameters standing it out as a flagship among similar programs, both here in Anambra and elsewhere, connect to give it a headstart.

Hence, apart from showing a zeal to set forth at dawn by hatching its conception right from inception of the new administration, dotting every ‘I’ and crossing every ‘T’ in a cerebral devotion to details while taking off indicates an uncompromising commitment to transforming its primary targets into a centrepiece of the new socio-economic development agenda.

This explains why experts say it has not only delivered beyond projected take-off goals but has every potentials of a success story in social service delivery that will ultimately bring other states in the federation to Anambra for mentorships and refine traditional Igbo apprenticeship economics into global market

  This prefaces Anambra’s one youth, two skills program.

  Providing insights into strategic toolkits in the program, Anambra State Commissioner for Youth Empowerment, Mr. Patrick Aghamba explained it as “first of its kind to co-opt volunteer master trainers or business owners with track record numbering 470, decentralised training centres to ensure there’s one in all the 21 local government areas rather than lumping everybody together in a hardly cohesive bunch, mandatory four-seven- month how-to training within the business environment, periodic inspection visit for progress and challenge review-assessment as a template for monitoring compliance with set standards by training centres, involving community leaders in the business of training centres within their localities.

  “ Yet, even if cynics may choose to understand the commissioner’s explanation as marking one’s examination scripts, more takes from indigenous Anambra business brands or doyens dislodges every cynicism.

Hence, an Awgbu, Orumba North L.G.A-born youth developer and industrialist, Chief Walter Chigbo believes the program will deliver. Speaking in an interview on activities marking Gov. Chukwuma Soludo’s one year in office, the Lagos-based marine and agro-allied mogul said “government has this time provided incentives that raises the bar of youth inclusion from empowerment to development and this creates new motivation for us to key into the scheme knowing that everyone stands to gain from youths productively engaged in marketable and entrepreneurial skillsets. 

Rather than ‘share the money’ mentality inculcated in them by previous administrations, the new scheme is a shift in paradigm because attractive but lucrative vocations in auto, ICT, properties, fashion and style industries, as well as cosmetology and hospitality sectors, among others were incorporated into it.”

  However, Chigbo advises that “all that is remaining is for government to bring more master trainers on board during subsequent phases of the program implementation and Anambra would have found digital solution to youth unemployment and restiveness fueling nationwide uptick in kidnapping, banditry, internet scamming among others.”

  From this, it is crystal clear that one youth, two skills is a seasoned template of putting Anambra’s today and future in youthful hands by teaching good-to-go youths how to fish rather than giving them fish under phantom charities of sharing bags of rice in ’employment’ facades perennially confining youths to waiting for a tomorrow that may never come.