Using participatory and beneficiary driven approaches, the communities had sustainable livelihood assessment exercises and subsequently planned possible interventions to address the key developmental problems identified. Based on the need to urgently address the threats particularly posed by youth poverty and unemployment conditions, a decision was taken by the development cluster G/E-CDB and the other community stakeholders to initiate a strategic intervention approach involving formulating the goals, agreeing the objectives and developing the interventions to address the issues holistically and in an integrated manner.
This approach was adopted to ensure the following:
i. All the segments of the youths (unskilled, semi-skilled and skilled) are carried on board. The targets were to further build the capacities of each segment to make them more effective, productive and employable.
ii. Adopt an integrated approach and implement a programme that will synergistically and holistically better achieve the set goals and objectives.
iii. We identified four broad categories of interventions which are directed at resolving the problems namely vocational skill acquisition scheme to benefit 80 youths at a time, post graduate scholarship awards for 36 persons, enterprise empowerment scheme for 60 persons and intra and inter community youth sports competitions for all youths.