The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has trained Youth-Led Organizations (YLO) from the North-East on effective project management, implementation, and sustainability.
Mr Christian Macauley, UNFPA Humanitarian Coordinator for the region made this known at the closing of the workshop on Friday in Kano.
Macauley said that the four-day training was organized to bring positive change and address various development challenges in the Northeast.
He said that the 24 members of Youth-Led Organizations, which comprised males and females, were chosen from front-line states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe.
Macauley explained that the organization rolled out its ninth country programme in 2023 and that youth empowerment was one of the major components.
According to him, 63 per cent of Nigeria’s population is made up of young people and they believe that reckoning with young persons would help push forward the agenda of UNFPA.
The humanitarian coordinator added that three transformative agenda of UNFPA include zero maternal deaths, ending the unmet need for family planning and gender-based violence, and all harmful practices.
He said that empowering the organisations would help them achieve the transformative result because most of the organizations are youths and women rights groups.
“With this workshop, we intend to have stronger leaders who can champion the cause of their organizations and the only way we can support them is to train them on stronger managerial skills to be able to pilot their organizations.
“The training will also equip them on how to manage human resources, financial resources and mobilize resources from donors.
“It will also help them to be stronger to run their organizations and compete with bigger organizations,” he said.
Macauley, who described young people as very innovative and energetic, said that working with them would surely bring sustainability, durability and would encourage young people to come up with great ideas.
He also lauded the Federal Government’s commitment in championing the cause of youths in Nigeria.
Earlier, the Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, has reiterated the Federal Government’s commitment to protect women and girls’ rights.
Represented by Jafar Muhammad, Assistant Chief Community Development Officer of the ministry, the minister said that the federal government has a mandate to take care of women, girls and youths.
The minister said that equipping the youths to take care of themselves would go a long way in reducing unemployment in the country.
She also expressed the government commitment to tackle Gender Based Violence in the country.
Some of the participants, who spoke enthusiastically, said they were ready to go back to the field to practice what they had learned.
Godiya Simon said she had learnt how to do proper documentation and promised to share the knowledge with others.
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Mr Zion Japheth, said he had learnt how to listen and also manage human resources, financial resources.
Joshua Jatau, said that learnt managerial skills and how to pilot an organization successfully.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the training, which commenced on Monday, ended on Friday with the presentation of certificates to all the participants. (NAN)
