What a Youth has to say:

Youths are unable realize their full potential, and live a happy and successful life.  They struggle in an environment that has fostered skills mismatch, urban and rural divide, weak youth entrepreneurship, and unsecure jobs in both the formal and informal sector.  If it continues, current and future generations will be confined to a poorer quality of life and remembered as the lost generations.

Many youths today end up in poorly paid informal work.  They can’t find jobs because they do not have experience, skills, contacts, awareness of job availability and means to travel to find work.  Employers say youth are not prepared for the world of work: youth agree but their educators and trainers do not.

To dissipate the growing current situation, youths should be educated and skilled, empowered, and engaged.

Youths should:

1.   Engage in opportunities that enable to practice life skills and leadership;

2.  Advocate and serve as a resource for a public information for policy making and investment decisions; and

3.   Organize and execute a youth-led dialogue that brings together youth, government and private sector to talk about issues on employment.

Youths foresee immediate importance of 1) investing in skills development through technical and vocational training; 2) public private partnership in infrastructure development; 3) facilitating private sector development; 5) consciously embracing inclusive growth; and 4) ensuring efficiency and integrity both in civil service and state owned enterprises.  Balancing the focus and investment among these key factors of immediate importance will have far reaching impact. 

Besides Youths encourage:

1. Greater collaboration between private sector and education  institutions in curriculum-           design and career-guidance.

2. Greater emphasis on entrepreneurship in all levels of formal and non-formal education, and     making youth-friendly financial resources accessible.

3.  Incentives for businesses that promote decent work opportunities for youth.

The low employability of Youth directly affects competitiveness of the economy.  The economists understand this statement and explain professionally.  So is youth employment and economy.  

Take care of Youth; the economy will be taken care of.