Investing in young people
Commitment description:3. Improve investments in young people to capitalize on the demographic dividend by; increasing budgetary allocation towards programmes for young people, establishing a national internship programme within government the private sector and among development partners, full roll out of the vocational & life skills training, promoting youth participation across all levels and extending the free education initiative with a particular focus on the groups that are left behind such as young people with disabilities, strengthening leadership of young people in decision making positions across all levels and operationalizing the National Education Sector Policy to ensure that teenage mothers are able to complete their education by 2030.
Mode of engagement:
- Programmatic actionThe commitment focuses on investments in young people as a means to harness the demographic dividend
Draw on demographic diversity to drive economic growth and achieve sustainable development(8) Investing in the education, employment opportunities, health, including family planning and sexual and reproductive health services, of adolescents and youth, especially girls, so as to fully harness the promises of the demographic dividend.
