Youth Empowerment: Three-year «Special Youth» Plan Operational

The Minister of Youth Affairs and Civic Education Mounouna Foutsou officially launched the plan in Yaounde, January 11, 2017.

President Paul Biya in his address during the golden jubilee celebration of the National Youth Day on February 10, 2016 announced that he had instructed government on the implementation of aFCFA 102 billion Three-year « Special Youth » Plan. The Minister of Youth Affairs and Civic Education, Mounouna Foutsou on bebalf of Prime Minister  Philemon Yang,  officially launched the plan in Yaounde on January 11, 2017. Its main mission is to facilitate and accelerate youth socio-economic integration.

The presiding Minister re-stated the overall objective of the plan which is to enhance civic education and social and economic integration of young people by mobilising them, providing  them with civic and entrepreneurial training, employing them or setting  them in business as production and service units. The major components of the plan include the establishment of a National Youth Observatory, specialisation  and operational capacity building for the programmes implemented at the Ministry of  Youth Affairs and Civic Education (MINJEC) and other ministries  for the social and economic integration of young people, and finally  the development  of socio-educational facilities  and equipment  for the local mobilisation, coaching  and monitoring of young people including especially the Multi-purpose Youth Empowerment Centres and in Civic Service Centres.  For the 2017 financial year, FCFA 25 billion has been allocated for the plan.

The ceremony at the Yaounde Multipurpose Sports Complex was punctuated by other activities in...