Youth Employment through Entrepreneurship

Estimated Cost of the Project : 1,000,000  US$

  • Request from a Sponsor 900,000  US$
  • PAID’s Contribution 100,000  US$

Duration : 24 months

Association’s CEO : Prof. Emmanuel Kamdem, Secretary General

Address : PAID-GS, P.O. Box 35527, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Telephone number(s) : Off.: +237 22 20 82035 / Mob.: +237 22 80 58 47

E-Mail address : sg-paid-ipd@hotmail.ch

Contact persons:  

Fernand VINCENT

3 rue Varembé / C.P. 38, 1211 Genève 20

Tél.: +4122 733 60 16

Objectives of the Project

  1. Development objectives
    • Enhancing a new generation of youth entrepreneurs;
    • Contributing in promoting Cameroon to the rank of an emergent country by the year 2035
  2. Immediate objectives (To mobilise and train youth to)
    • Open for them a gateway for employment opportunities;
    • Facilitate auto-employment;
    • Lesson the high rate of youth unemployment;
    • Alleviate youth delinquency;
    • Enable a stress-free youth hence positive thinking and contributing to their country’s economic growth;
    • Alleviate crime wave generated by the youth.

Outcome

  • Youth employed and better living conditions guarantied;
  • Happiness of a youth running his/her income generating business;
  • Government being relieved from the trouble of youth employment rate;
  • Youth delinquency discouraged;
  • Youth comfortably contributing for the country’s economic growth;
  • Crime wave put at bay.

Activities

  • Teaming up with some companies in training youth;
  • Contacting youth-related government ministries in designing training and creating employment for the youth
  • Advising government agencies on youth delinquency issues;
  • Briefing youth on up-to-date standard of living;
  • Seeking assistance from international organisations/bodies in satisfying youth rights.

Inputs

  • Computers;
  • Cameras;
  • Training staff;
  • Training facilities;
  • Transport facilities;
  • Evaluation and reporting.