NEW YORK (Halbeeg News) – Somali Minister for Foreign Affairs Ahmed Isse Awad and Sheikha Moza bint Naseer, Chairperson of Qatar based Silatech’s Board of Trustees have jointly signed two deals meant to create jobs for Somali youth.
The signing of the agreements intended to economically empower Somali youth by securing more than 75,000 jobs in Somalia took place on Monday in New York.
A collaboration between Silatech, American Refugee Committee (ARC) and the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and Somali government, the first agreement aims to provide housing and energy solutions for 1,000 families and develop local youth owned enterprises; creating around 3,000 jobs for returning refugees and IDPs in the Kismayo district.
According to The Peninsula, Qatar based newspaper, the second agreement is to support Al Amal bank in financing youth enterprises to create 63,414 jobs around Somalia.
In partnership with the Somali Institute for Development and Research Analysis (SIDRA), the purpose of the third agreement is to build the skills of 9,000 graduates and place them into jobs in the labour market.
As part of its continuous efforts to empower youth in Somalia and activate their role in developing their communities, Silatech signed the three agreements to provide solutions to combat unemployment, poverty, marginalisation and extremism.
The Peninsula reported that since its inception in 2008, Silatech has secured one million jobs for youth through working in coordination with governments and international organisations and in cooperation with its partners to design and implement programmes that uproot youth out of poverty and chronic unemployment, thus empowering them to contribute to the socioeconomic development of their countries.
Halbeeg News and The Peninsula
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