remedy youth unemployment and help secure their livelihoods are well informed and responsive to their needs. 4 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS Having conducted both field and desk research on youth perspectives towards the realization of the most important strategic issues for youths, O4Z has came up with recommendations can help in ensuring that the priority issues affecting the young people are addressed. The recommendations are centered on the genuine inclusion and participation of youths as a determinant factors towards the crafting and realization of pro-youth policies by the Government and other stakeholders. In addressing the priority issues as outlined above, stakeholders are challenged and encouraged to: 1. Ensure grassroots awareness of the National Youth Policy, the constitution and related national laws, regional and international statutes such as the African Youth Charter, other strategies and policy papers that have been put forward as tools in the fight for youth development. 2. Take note to genuinely engage with young people, in their diversity, through open and non-partisan platforms so that at any given stage, the voices of young people are heard, and therefore included in the formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies that seek to address their issues. More importantly, it is critical that the identification of problems affecting young people is done with the proper and ethical inclusion of young people themselves. 3. Take advantage of the growth in significance and relevance of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in advancing youth development. Significant effort should also be put towards ensuring the safe and secure engagement of young people in the cyberspace, and particularly on the internet, which should be made accessible and affordable to all citizens including young people. 4. Proffer opportunities for the constant monitoring, evaluation and review of this policy, so that it is up-to-date and remains relevant to the issues, needs and aspirations of the young people concerned in an ever dynamic world, with changing technologies, mind-sets and thinking. Tailor-made score-cards and other monitoring and evaluation tools should be developed so that progress towards the achievement of the policy’s strategic goals is measured in real-time and that adjustments can be readily and easily made in pursuit of the overall goal of youth development.