Monday September 24, 2018
H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Chairperson of Silatech’s Board of Trustees, witnessed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Silatech, the UN Democracy Fund and Tamkeen for Development, which aims to promote and strengthen youth engagement and employability in countries of mutual interest. Pic: aR Al Baker
DOHA: H H Sheikha Moza bint Naseer, Chairperson of
Silatech’s Board of Trustees, and Ahmed Isse Awad, the Minister of
Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Federal Republic of
Somalia, attended yesterday in New York the signing of three agreements
to economically empower Somali youth by securing more than 75,000 jobs
in Somalia.
A collaboration between Silatech, American Refugee Committee (ARC)
and the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR), the first agreement aims to provide housing and energy
solutions for 1,000 families and develop local youth owned enterprises;
creating around 3,000 jobs for returning refugees and IDPs in the
Kismayo district.
The second agreement is to support Al Amal bank in financing youth
enterprises to create 63,414 jobs around Somalia. In partnership with
the Somali Institute for Development and Research Analysis (SIDRA), the
purpose of the third agreement is to build the skills of 9,000 graduates
and place them into jobs in the labour market.
As part of its continuous efforts to empower youth in Somalia and
activate their role in developing their communities, Silatech signed the
three agreements to provide solutions to combat unemployment, poverty,
marginalisation and extremism.
Furthermore, Her Highness has attended the signing of a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) between Silatech, the United Nations Democracy
Fund, and Tamkeen for Development to collaborate within their respective
mandates and their common goals in the area of improving youth
empowerment and participation and skills developments based on the World
Programme of Action for Youth. The MoU aims at engendering, promoting
and strengthening youth engagement, skills development, entrepreneurship
and improving employability in countries or regions of mutual interest.
Since its inception in 2008, Silatech has secured one million jobs
for youth through working in coordination with governments and
international organisations and in cooperation with its partners to
design and implement programmes that uproot youth out of poverty and
chronic unemployment, thus empowering them to contribute to the
socioeconomic development of their countries.