The Rwanda’s Ministry of Youth and ICT (MYICT) signs a Memorandum of Understanding with the Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV) on Tuesday, April 21, 2015 aiming to create employment for 4,000 youth from across Rwanda.
This partnership is under The “Opportunities for Youth Employment” (OYE) project, implemented by SNV with funding from the MasterCard Foundation. The OYE project is a regional programme that is targeting to create employment for 4,000 Rwandan youth over 5 years (2014-2018).
In Rwanda MYICT and SNV partnership will join forces to support the project with the aim to improve the livelihoods of out-of-school youth by creating employment and self-employment opportunities in the renewable energy sector. The objective is to create employment for 4,000 Rwandan young men and women and to establish 70 new youth-led Renewable Energy enterprises within the next 5 years.
SNV is also supporting capacity of 40 Youth in ICT application in the coffee sector including promotion of specially designed mobile application and smart phones for collecting and uploading the voices of 10,000 smallholder coffee farmers and will provide relevant skills in beekeeping to support 500 farmers including 50% youth and women in starting beekeeping group enterprises.
The Rwanda’s Minister of Youth and ICT, Jean Philbert Nsengimana noted that “We have geared up efforts to tackle youth unemployment by working with various partners; this MoU will be assisting us to do several activities at a go primarily to protect our environment and creating jobs for youth – which are both important pillars of Rwanda’s sustainable development strategy.”
“We are excited to work with The Ministry of Youth and ICT, contributing to the economic development and poverty reduction by equipping young people to take charge of their own development through promising careers in sustainable Renewable Energy sector where employment opportunities are emerging!” SNV Rwanda Country Director Phomolo Maphosa said.
Employment focus for Rwanda will be mainly within Biogas and Improved Cooking Stoves (ICS) and related sectors such as briquette production and biogas slurry, pico- hydro and in the solar sector. The employment projections are based on the expected growth of the various sectors and associated labour requirements as per the development plans of the Government of Rwanda.
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