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YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES      DEPARTMENTAL HIGHLIGHTS

YOUTH DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT

VISION

To be the driver of the leadership in youth development.

MISSION

To offer par excellence delivery in the nurturing, transformation and empowerment of youths for nation building through vocational training, life skills and leadership development.

KEY PERFOMANCE AREAS

  • Youth mobilisation, empowerment and participation.
  • Youth transformation through vocational skills training.
  • Youth health, population and the environment.
  • Youth data and research
  • Policy planning and coordination.

GOALS

  • Achieve 10% youth partcipation in nation building programmes per district.
  • Increase life skills base in youth to 5% by district.
  • Involve 10% of youths in each district in healthy lifestyles and environmental management programmes.
  • Create a national youth data bank.

TERMS OF REFERENCE:

•  National Youth Policy

•  Millennium Development Goals

•  Vocational and Education Training Act

•  Zimbabwe Youth Council Act

•  Nziramasanga Commission Report

•  Macroeconomic Policy Framework

•  CAMP framework


KEY PERFOMANCE AREAS , GOALS, & OBJECTIVES

KPA

Goals

Objectives

YOUTH AND COMMUNITIES PERSPECTIVE

 

 

  1. Youth mobilization, empowerment and participation
  1. Achieve 10% youth participation in nation building programmes per district

 

•  Involve 50 youths in each district in voluntary community and national development programmes

•  Provide citizenship and leadership training to 100 youths in each district

•  Establish four youth interact centers or clubs

•  Facilitate the participation of 20 youths in Tourism ventures

•  Facilitate the participation by youths in two national, one regional and one international exchange programmes

•  Establish and conduct 10 provincial youth HIV and AIDS mitigation programmes

•  Launch a “youth against veld fires” project involving youths in every district

•  Engage youths in one environmental protection project per district

  1. Youth transformation through vocational skills training
  1. Increase life skills base in youth by 5% per district

 

 

 

•  Redesign Vocational Training Centre programmes and management to focus on training for enterprise development and employment requirements of industry

•  Facilitate the growth of each centre towards self sustenance

•  Develop the operational manual for vocational training.

•  Facilitate the capacity building of all District and centre Heads

  1. Youth data and research
  1. Create a National youth data bank

•  Create a National disaggregated Youth Data Bank for out of school youth

  1. Policy planning and coordination
  1. Develop a National Action Plan on the National Youth Policy

•  Coordinate the establishment of the National Youth Policy Technical Committee

POLICY REQUIREMENTS:

 

External

KPA Ref

Internal

KPA Ref

1.

Zimbabwe Youth Council Act

1

National Youth Policy

All

2.

Manpower Planning and Development Act

2

 

 

3.

Nziramasanga Commission Report (199)

1 & 2

 

 

4.

Millenium Development Goals (1995)

1, 2, & 3

 

 

5.

Fiscal and Monetary Policies (2005)

All

 

 

6.

National Gender Policy

All

 

 

7.

Macroeconomic Policy framework

2005-2006

All

 

 

8

Vision 2020

All

 

 

9.

CAMP document

All

 

 

STAKEHOLDERS

 

External

Internal

 

1.

 

Higher and Tertiary Education Council

 

Minister of Youth Development and Employment Creation

 

2.

NAMACO

 

3.

Ministry of Finance

 

4.

Public Service Commission

 

5.

Zimbabwe Youth Council

 

6.

Sports and Recreation Commission

 

7.

NGOs

 



- Latest News -

 


Be innovative, Kasukuwere urges youths

 

 

6September 2006

YOUTHS should distinguish themselves and come up with programmes that provide solutions to the economic challenges the country is facing through innovation and creation of wealth, the Deputy Minister of Youth Development Cde Saviour Kasukuwere has said.

This, Cde Kasukuwere said, was possible if youth adopted a spirit of working together and took advantage of the various programmes and funding initiatives that have been put in place by the Government.

He said this at a meeting with district youth chairpersons from Mashonaland West Province organised to mobilise and raise awareness among the youths about the programmes which the Government had put in place to empower them.

"Youths of today should distinguish themselves by being in the frontline in the fight against the economic challenges the country is facing.

"Our leaders waged their war against oppression and distinguished themselves by successfully fighting and defeating the repressive system, we now enjoy independence," said Cde Kasukuwere.

Youths, he said should organise themselves into clubs such as young farmers clubs for easy access to funding.

This, he said, would lead to the resuscitation and improved production at farms around the country.