KWALUSENI: Ms Rose Ssebatindira, the United Nations Development Programme(UNDP) Resident Representative says, more youth will benefit under the Eswatini Youth Empowerment Programme(EYEP) as fifty-eight(58) graduate this week.
The graduation ceremony held at the Kwaluseni University of Eswatini(UNESWA) on Thursday morning was attended by, among others, Dr Thambo Gina, the Minister of Economic Planning and Development, Youth Affairs Minister Madze Bulunga and Attorney General(AG) Sifiso Khumalo.
Speaking during the graduation of the first team of beneficiaries under Eswatini Youth Empowerment Programme (EYEP), the UNDP Resident Representative said the graduate trainees will be deployed to various organizations and/or companies nationwide.
"The first cohort of graduate youth is part of a much bigger group of applicants to the programme-over three thousand(3000) and no doubt many more out there.The inner relatedness of the bottlenecks to youth employment and employability calls for cross-sectoral policies and programmes that attend to these issues,” said the UNDP Resident Representative.
UNDP YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMME: Resident Representative Ms Rose Ssebatindira says more youth to benefit as fifty-eight(58) graduate.