Mastercard Foundation Nigeria has said that it is targeting 10 million Nigerians between the ages of 15 and 35 that will be engaged with decent jobs by the year 2030, under the Young Africa Works Strategy.
The foundation also said that it had trained 11 Young Impact Associates in the last year to have greater skills and more knowledge in monitoring and evaluation.
Speaking at a four-day Boot Camp event to mark the end of the one-year program in Abuja on Tuesday, the Project Director for Impact Partner Organisation for the Young Africa Works Strategy, funded by Mastercard Foundation Nigeria, Nkem Ene, noted that the idea of the training is not for people outside the YIAs age bracket not to look at them condescendingly but they will be the ones to decide what should be monitored for their age group and how it should be monitored.
Nkem noted, “They have a strategy to ensure that 30 million young people between the ages of 15 to 35 years are engaged in meaningful work that has dignity, pays decent wages, work that they are proud to do by the year 2030 and 10 million of such young people will come from Nigeria. So the Young Africa Works Project is intending in later years to have the same young people that they are looking to serve to be the ones evaluating their progress.
