Lungu shares strategy for youth employment

President Edgar Chagwa Lungu during the Summit of Committee of Ten (C-10) on the United Nations (UN) Security Council reforms in Addis Ababa on Friday, January 29,2016. PICTURE BY SALIM HENRY/STATE HOUSE ©2016

President Edgar Lungu has called for transformational approaches to spur technical and vocational training for youth employment on the continent.

Speaking today during a NEPAD meeting of heads of State and Government ahead of the official opening of the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, President Lungu says Africa needs to ensure that skills development and mainstreaming of job creation for youths are embedded in the continental development agenda.

He says commended the NEPAD secretariat for actively coordinating the Africa Agenda 2060, the driver for the continent’s dream of the ‘AFRICA WE WANT’.

President Lungu called for clearer definition of the role of NEPAD’s coordination role so that all stakeholders understood what it was doing.

President Lungu who also attended a meeting of the Committee of Ten on UN Security Council reforms seconded the adoption of the report on the position of Africa on the matter.

This is contained in a statement issued to Qfm by the president’s special assistant for press and public relations Amos Chanda.

President Edgar Chagwa Lungu (left) with his Namibian counterpart Dr. Hage Geingob (centre) and Namibian Deputy Prime Minister and International Relations Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah after the Summit of Committee of Ten (C-10) on the United Nations (UN) Security Council reforms in Addis Ababa on Friday, January 29,2016. PICTURE BY SALIM HENRY/STATE HOUSE ©2016