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Article

8 May 2013

Author:
Charlotte Petri Gornitzka, Sida [Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency] Director-General, in Guardian Sustainable Business Blog [UK]

Somalia's lost generation: why youth employment is key to stability

[T]he unemployment rate for youths in Somalia…[is]…among the highest in the world…[W]e...need to act more as a catalytic force to ensure that economic growth will benefit the disengaged youth in Somalia and elsewhere in Africa by engaging the private sector....By…involving the private sector, in these emerging markets…[w]e can create jobs and in the process we can help secure the future of youth…Sida [Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency] is now, together with both truck manufacturers Volvo and Scania, supporting vocational schools for mechanics in Ethiopia and are preparing to bring similar concepts to Liberia, Mozambique and DR Congo, together with other major Swedish and international manufacturing companies...In post-conflict countries like Somalia...[j]obs are critical for reducing poverty, making cities work, and providing youth with alternatives to violence.