Focus on jobs for youth

Despite politically motivated rhetoric that Tanzania’s economy is growing at a significant pace, the number of youth without jobs is still alarming. By 2011, the unemployment rate was at 10.7 per cent, a slight drop from 11.7 per cent in 2007. A survey by an NGO, Restless Development, also reveals that only 14 per cent of over 1,000 youth in Tanzania have wages to speak of.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

20 Dec

70,000 jobs for youth in three years

>At least 70,000 self-employment chances were created for marginalised youth in the past three years in the country through a programme under the International Labour Organisation (ILO) dubbed ‘kazi nje nje.’

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

18 Mar

Katiba member wants jobs for youth

>Constituent Assembly (CA) member Beatrice Shelukindo has suggested that the new Constitution should contain provisions that assure the youth of employment.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

17 Feb

Make the best of qatar scheme for youth jobs

 It is fashionable, nowadays, to refer to youth unemployment as a ticking time bomb. The analogy is scaring because a bomb is lethal, for it leaves death and destruction in its wake when it detonates.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

20 Oct

Offer learning by doing to assure youth of jobs

The call made at the weekend by the founder of an Arusha-based institute, Mr Francis Brochon, that technical education should be practical rather than theoretical is most appropriate.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

19 Aug

Jobs, sex, money are youth’s top priorities

>Jobs, sex and money top the list of what African youth, including Tanzanian, want most, according to a report published by the Mail & Guardian Africa.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

28 Nov

EDITORIAL: Cecafa should shift focus on youth championships

It has been a roller-coaster week watching our favourite teams slug it out at the 2015 Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup in Ethiopia.

 

11 years ago

IPPmedia

29 Jul

600 brick making machines offerred to create jobs for youth

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600 brick making machines offerred to create jobs for youth
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Valued at almost 300m/-, over 600 brick making machines have being donated as part of ongoing efforts to create employment opportunities for youth countrywide. The donation is from the National Housing Corporation (NHC) which is undertaking major ...

 

10 years ago

Michuzi

11 Sep

The Right Mix: Youth Study Reveals The Music that Makes East Africa Youth One.

 

11 years ago

Michuzi

14 Mar

THE AFROMUN YOUTH CONFERRENCE IN ADDIS ABABA ETHIOPIA GIVING AFRICAN YOUTH AN EYE OPENER

Joseph Muya captured  with the acting African Development Bank Vice President on the subject of green energy and development in Africa. Joseph Muya, Alvin Wanyama, pose with Dr, Raymonde Aggousus, the head of HR and Youth Division after candid discussions in her office about the challenges unique to the African Youth and the opportunities that the AU has for the African youth, on her left is Sia Marupa, the TUNZA regional Ambassador. Glory Blasio and Joseph Muya poses for a light moment in...

 

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