d. Provide young people with the necessary education, information and
skills for their effective participation;
e. Ensure that Government approves a 25% quota of all economic
indigenization and empowerment facilities in agriculture, mining,
commercial, tourism, and industrial economic activity is reserved and
available for youth, paying particular attention to the empowerment of
young women and young people with disabilities;
f. Provide adequate information in appropriate mediums on economic
empowerment and indigenization to all youth and notably youth with
disabilities and youth in rural areas;
g. Facilitate the participation of youth in parliament and other decision
making bodies in accordance with prescribed laws;
h. Strengthen the capacity of youth organizations in peace building, conflict
prevention, and conflict resolution through intercultural learning, civic
education, human rights education and democracy, mutual respect for
cultural, ethnic, religious and political diversity;
i. Provide technical and financial support to build institutional capacity of
youth organizations and in particular those with programmes involving
female, rural, disabled and other marginalized youth;
j. Include youth representatives as part of delegations to national, regional
and international youth development meetings and sessions;
k. Give priority to policies and programmes including youth advocacy and
peer-to-peer programmes for marginalized young people, such as out-ofschool and out-of-work young people, young women, young people living
with disabilities, to offer them the opportunity to re-integrate into the
mainstream society.;
l. Take appropriate measures to promote physical and psychological
recovery and social reintegration of victims and perpetrators of violence
and former prisoners by providing access to education and skills
development, and access to economic and social opportunities.
5.3
Youth Employment and Sustainable Livelihoods
The National Youth Policy recognizes that decent employment and
participation in agricultural, industrial, commercial and services sector
provides sustenance and sustainable livelihood to the majority of youth.
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