Ministerial Platform 2013,

1. F E D E R A L M I N I S T R Y O F Y O U T H D E V E L O P M E N T
By
INUWA ABDUL-KADIR, Esq
HonourableMinister, Federal Ministry of Youth Development

2. INTRODUCTION
• It isan established fact that youth, asfutureleaders, arethemost valuable
national asset and investment in their upbringing, development and
empowerment isthereforevery essential for theprogressand development
of our nation.
• TheNational Youth Policy definesyouth aspersonsaged between 18 – 35
years. They constitutethelargest demographic group with an estimated
population of about 80 million that israpidly increasing.
• A lot hasbeen donefor youth development but much moreneedsto be
doneconsidering thesheer population and complexity of thetask of
effectivemanagement of youth issues.
• In spiteof investmentsin youth development, restiveness, violent crimes,
drugsabuseand other social vicescontinueto poseseriouschallenges.
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3. Establishment of the Ministry
• TheMinistry started asaunit and grew progressively from aDivision to a
Department through 9 Ministriesin 25 years. It becameafull-fledged
Ministry in January 2007.
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4. • VISION
To empower theNigerian youth to becomeself reliant and socially responsible
• MISSION
To provideasustainableframework for integrated planning and collaboration
among stakeholdersfor thedevelopment of policiesand programmes, laws
and other initiativesthat promoteand enhancethedevelopment of the
Nigerian youth and theprotection of their interests.
Vision – Mission
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5. Network and Social Mobilization
(NSM)
Successful sitting of theYouth
Parliament and replication in somestates
Successful Review of theNYCN Constitution and
conduct of congress
Categorization of NGO and development of
working relationship guideline
EnterpriseDevelopment and
Promotion (EDP)
Successful execution of the MDG Suppo rted Yo uth
in Agriculture Pro gramme
Successful training on agricultural extension service
Successful implementation of Vocational training
STRUCTUREANDACTIVITIES OFDEPARTMENTS
ANDAGENCIES
The Ministry has Six Departments and Two
Agencies.
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6. STRUCTUREANDACTIVITIES OFDEPARTMENTS OF
AGENCIES
Education and Youth
Development (EYD)
Capacity building workshop for career youth
development officers
Successful training of 246 youth on civic
education and responsibility
Successful holding of Bilateral meeting between
Nigeria– Niger
Bi-National Commission Meeting held in Cape
town , South Africa
National Youth ServiceCorps Successful implementation of skillsacquisition &
entrepreneurship development programme
Successful implementation of agro-
entrepreneurship training and disbursement of loans
to corpsmembers.
Deployment of corpsmembersin threebatches
totaling over 227,136 in 2012
Citizenship and Leadership
Training Center (C&LTC)
Successful training and reorienting of youth at
risk .
Increasepatronageof thecenter programmes.
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7. REVENUEANDEXPENDITUREPROFILEFORTHEYEAR
2012.
Budget
Breakdown
Projected
Investment
Plan under 1st
NIP(N)
Budget Allocation Internall
y
Generat
ed
Revenu
e
(IGR)
(N)
Donor/Privat
e
Sector
Contribution
(N)
Total
ExpenditureAppropriation
(N)
Budget Warrant
Released
(N)
Amount Cash Backed
(N)
FMYD
Capital 5,762,094,100 2,598,937, 420.80 2,598,937, 420.80 ------- ------- 2,598,937,
420.80
Recurrent 622,843,469 622,843,469 622,843,469 622,843,469
NYSC
Capital 1,126,938,597 540,410,921 538,107,463 --------- ------ 538,107,463
Recurrent 68,946,528,22
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66,738,828,310 66,738,828,310 ------ ------- 66,738,828,310
C&LTC
Capital 258,200,000 161,374,319 123,526,184 ------ --------- 123,423,695
Recurrent 942, 353, 998 951, 353, 998 796, 162, 123 783, 732, 624
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8. KEY OUTCOMES DELIVEREDS/N PERFORMANCEINDICATOR 2012 PLANNEDTARGET 2012 (ACTUALAS ATDEC
FMYD
1 Construction/equipping of Youth
Development centres
Completion of 9 Youth Centres in
Takai, Sumaila, Kudan, Katsina,
Biu, Ode-Omu, Awka, Ikot-Ekpene,
Agbokim
All awarded componentsin theNine
Youth Centresarecompleted
2 Strategic partnershipsin youth
empowerment in agro-allied
enterprises.
Provision of loansand grantsto ex -
Corpsmembersfor Agro-Business
M.O.U Signed with T.Y Danjuma
Foundation, Discussion on-going with
Songhai Centre, NERFUND, Bank of
Agric, and other relevant MDAs.
3 Commencement of theNigerian
Youth Entrepreneurship Development
Programme(NYEDP)
Part of atwo year plan for capacity
building and strengthening of
relationswith theCommonwealth
Office.
Engagement of Technical Adviser
from theCommonwealth Secretariat,
London Office.
4 MDG funded programmefor Youth
in Agriculture.
Training and Empowerment of
Agro- Entrepreneurs
634 Youth trained and awarded grants
of N200,000.00 each.
5 Implementation of Constituency
project for ZamfaraWest Senatorial
District
To facilitatethetraining of Youth in
Agro-Allied Skills.
279 Youth weretrained and awarded
grantsand Materials
6 Establishment of Nigerian Youth
Parliament and itsreplication at State
Levels
To inauguratetheSitting of the
Second Parliament and advocatethe
establishment of StateYouth
Parliaments.
Sitting of thesecond session of the
Youth Parliament,
Annual town hall meetingsand the
establishment of StateYouth
Parliamentsin Kano, Bauchi, Kogi,
BenueStates. Akwa- Ibom.7

9. 7 Implementation of the reform of
the NYSC and its restructuring.
Reviewing the Posting Policy
and the restructuring of the
NYSC and its activities forcorps
members
Posting policy implemented and
Reform Committee submitted its
report.
8 Partnership with International
Ecological Safety Collaborative
Organization (IESCO) to provide
technical assistanceon green jobs,
Ecological/Environmental safety and
climatechangefor youth.
To provideequipment and
technical expertiseto theexisting
Youth Development Centresin the
Country.
M.O.U Signed
9 Partnership with UN Habitat To establish aoneStop Youth
Development and Information
Centrefor West Africain Nigeria.
M.O.U Signed
10 Providing aplatform for young
peoples’ voicesto beheard
Repositioning of theNational
Youth Council of Nigeria(NYCN)
to meet theglobal set standards
NYCN Constitution reviewed and
ElectiveCongressto beConducted.
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UNDPJunior Professional Officers
(JPO) Programme
Recruit and exposeyoung
Nigeriansto theUN System and
international Civil Service.
M.O.U Signed with theUN System,
Road map for implementation
developed and Selection of
participantsto commence.
KEY OUTCOMES DELIVEREDcontd.
Over1,781,826 Youth were empowered in 20128

10. ACTIVITIES OF
THEMINISTRY
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11. ACTIVITIES OF
THE
MINISTRY
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12. STAKEHOLDERENGAGEMENTS
Meeting of the 5th
National Council on Youth Development
•TheCouncil Resolved and urged theFederal Government to:
– Undertakean effectiveanti-drug abusecampaign programme.
– ExecuteaNational Action Programmefor ValueOrientation and
EffectiveEngagement of Youth.
– ConveneaNational Stakeholders’ Summit on Youth Development.
– Continuecollaboration with relevant stakeholdersto createjobsfor
youth throughAgro-related businesses.
– Continuethesurvey for aNational Youth Index that will provide
detailed dataon thestatusof youth in Nigeria.
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13. • Second Sitting of theSecond Session of
the NigeriaYouth Parliament was
convened and resolutionson issues
affecting young peoplewerepassed for
onward transmission to theNational
Assembly for consideration.
• TheNigeriaYouth Parliament held aTown
Hall Meeting in Minna, Niger State.
• Stateyouth parliamentswereestablished in
Bauchi, Osun, Kano, BenueandAkwa-
Ibom,
• Commonwealth Youth Parliament- African
Region held itssitting in Uyo, Akwa-Ibom
State.
• TheAfrican Youth Day wasmarked.
• National Youth Council of Nigeria
(NYCN) Zonal Consultativemeetings
wereheld aspart of theeffortsto transform
thecouncil.
STAKEHOLDERENGAGEMENTs cont’d.
Speaker of the Youth Parliament
Youth Parliament in session
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14. STAKEHOLDERENGAGEMENTS
Cond
Open conversation with Ministers from relevant MDAs was held as part of
activitiesmarking the2012 International Youth Week whereMinistersinteracted
with young peopleon their Ministriesactivitieson youth empowerment.
A participants asking question during the
Open Conversation with Ministers.
Hon. Minister of Youth Development with
Hon. Minister of State Trade and Investment,
Chairman House Committee on Youth and DG-
NYSC during Open Conversation Forum.
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15. REFORMS OFTHENYSC
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16. REFORMS OFTHENYSC
• Theneed to review policies, restructureand realign theNYSC Schemewith the
Federal Government’sTransformationAgendaled to thesetting up of aMinisterial
Committee, which cameup with thefollowing recommendations:
– Review of the current posting policy: review of thecurrent posting policy
asaresult of challengesencountered in itsimplementation to allow Corps
membersto benefit from privateand public sector experiencesin order to
increasetheir chanceof gainful engagement and employment after service.
– Adoption of Information Technology for Documentation and Certification of
Corpsmembers
– Revival of theNYSCAgricultureFarms
– Establishing synergy between NYSC and NUC, NBTE, JAMB to harmonize
carrying capacity of Corpsdeploying institutionsto obtain reliabledataon
Corpsmobilization.
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17. PARTNERSHIPFORAGRICULTURALINITIATIVES:
• 634 youth trained in the MDG SupportedYouthinAgriculture
Programmefor 2012.
• 667 youth trained at farm centresin Delta, Katsinaand RiversState.
• TheMinistry signed an MOU with TY DanjumaFoundation to provide
training in Agro-business andgrants forex-corps members .
• 279 youth weretrained and empowered in theAgricultural
EmpowermentProgrammeforYouthinZamfaraWestSenatorial
District. It also featured an exclusiveprogrammefor femaleyouth in the
District.
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18. YOUTHIN AGRICULTURE
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19. YOUTHIN AGRICULTURE
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20. PARTNERSHIPFORAGRICULTURAL
INITIATIVES:
Youth Entrepreneursassemblefor training at apastry and milk processing plant at
Owode-Egba
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21. PARTNERSHIPS
UN SYSTEM:
•UNIDO: TheMinistry commenced
discussionswith UNIDO on developing
themechanism that will attract young
peopleintoAgricultureascatalyst for
development.
•UNDP: Nigeriasigned an MOU with the
UNDPin December to recruit young
Nigerian Professionalsto work in theUN
System for aminimum of two years
through theJunior Professionals
Programme(JPO).
•Since theinception of theJPO
programmeby theUN System over 50
yearsago, Nigeriaisthefirst African
Country to becomeadonor member.
Nigeriaisstarting with 37 JPOs.
Hon. Minister, (second from right, second row) at the9th
Meeting of National Recruitment Servicesand UN Organisations
on theAssociateExpert/JPO/APO Programmesin Stockholm,
Sweden
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22. • United Nation Fund forPopulation Activities (UNFPA):
TheMinistry isworking with UNFPA to implement youth friendly
initiativesunder theUNFPA’s6th
Country Programmeof Assistance (6th
CPA). Someof theseinclude:
– Establishment of Youth Friendly Centreswithin theMinistry’sYouth
Development Centresand training of officerswho will work as
Counselorsat theCentres.
– Development and production of aNational Framework onAdolescent
ReproductiveHealth for thecountry in conjunction with theFederal
Ministry of Health,
– Supporting thereformsof theNational Youth Council of Nigeria
(NYCN) by facilitating thereview of itsconstitution aswell asthe
development of aStrategicAction Plan for theCouncil.
• UN HABITAT: theMinistry signed an MOU with theUN-HABITAT to
establish a‘One Stop’ Youth Development & Information Centrein
Nigeriafor West Africa.
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23. • UN Habitat isSupporting theMinistry to develop aframework for
managing itsYouth Centresin theareasof skillsacquisition, ICT, etc
• Ministry isin partnership with International Ecological Safety
Collaborative Organization (IESCO) in developing mechanism for Green
Jobsand other environmentally friendly initiativesfor youth engagement.
• TheIESCO will train and certify 1000 Nigerian trainersin Chinaon green
jobs, climatechangeand other wealth creation opportunities.
• Thereafter, similar institutions and training would bereplicated in Nigeria.
Prof. Jian Mingjun, President of IESCO, Inuwa Abdul-Kadri, Esq, Hon. Minister Youth
Development and Prof. Oyebanji Oyeyinka, Director, Research UN Habitat, signing an
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24. COMMONWEALTHYOUTH
PROGRAMME, AFRICA CENTRE
•12 Youth Development Officersin theMinistry
participated in the2012 edition of the
International Programme on Youth
Entrepreneurship Training (IPYET) Zambia
•TheUniversity of Abujaisrunning a
Commonwealth Professional Diploma
programmeon Youth Development on behalf of
theMinistry.
•A job creation strategy to provide10,000 jobsin
two yearshasbeen developed by theMinistry in
collaboration with theCommonwealth. To this
end, aTechnical Adviser hasbeen deployed by
theCommonwealth Secretariat to work with the
Ministry from 2013 – 2015 towardsachieving
this.
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25. ECOWAS COMMISSION
•TheMinistry supported 12 Nigerian youth to participateat theECOWAS
Annual Youth Empowerment Programme/ Training for Youth inAgriculture
and Mechanical/Electrical workswhich wereheld in Songhai, Porto Novo,
Benin Republic and Ouagadougou in BurkinaFaso respectively.
•Beneficiariesweresupported with take-off grantsby theMinistry.
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26. POLICY INITIATIVES
• 7 new policieswereinitiated:
1. Introduction of Leadership, ValueOrientation and Reorientation
Componentsin all Youth Development /Empowerment Programmeseither
skilled or knowledgebased
2. Introduction of theNational Patriot Campaign- thisisaimed at launching
acampaign for patriotism among young peoplethrough revamping the
volunteer activitiesof school and faith based youth organizationsi.ethe
Scout, Girls’ Guide, BoysBrigade.
Hon. Minister with National Leader of Girls’ Guild during courtesy visit.
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27. POLICY INITIATIVES
3. Scaling up and Sustaining Youth Development and Empowerment
Activitiesin Nigeriathrough PPParrangement.
4.Scaling up and strengthening of Partnership with relevant MDAs, and
NGOsto develop an elaborateYouth Empowerment Project.
Hon. Minister with the Leadership of the Nigerian Scout Movement
at their 2012 Annual General Meeting .
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28. POLICY INITIATIVES
5. Reform of theNational Youth Council of Nigeria(NYCN): Ministry has
supported and supervised thereview of theNYCN Constitution
6. TheMinistry isdeveloping aframework for National Mentorship
Programme
7. Restructuring of theMinistry’s departmentsand unitsto align with
Commonwealth recommended standard.
Youth participants at the C&LTC camping programme
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29. National Youth Index
• TheMinistry commissioned theNational Bureau of Statistics for thefirst
timeto conduct anationwidesurvey on thestatusof youth in Nigeriafor
thedevelopment of aNational Youth Index.
• Thesurvey coversareasof youth in education, health, employment,
agriculture, migration, ICT, conflict resolution, crime, and drug abuse
• Thedataisbeing processed and theoutcomewill bepublished soon.
A group of Students during life skill training at C&LTC Centre
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30. YOUTHMOBILISATION AND
NETWORKING:
• TheMinistry hasdesigned and undertaken anumber of initiativesto give
theyouth avoice. Theseinclude:
– Reactivation of aTweet Conferenceon Social Media.
– Upgradeof theministry’swebsiteto Youth Development Virtual
ResourceCentre
– Strengthening and repositioning of working guidelinesbetween the
Ministry and Voluntary Youth Organizations(VYOs).
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31. YOUTHDEVELOPMENTINFRASTRUCTURE
• Opening of Zonal Offices:
theMinistry operates6 zonal
offices, onein each geo-
political zoneto decentralizeits
programmesto Statesand Local
Governments.
• Building Youth
Development Centres:
currently, theMinistry is
supervising theconstruction of
additional 29 Youth
Development Centresas
constituency projectsacrossthe
Country.
Above: National Youth Centre, Owode Egba, Ogun State
Below: National Youth Centre, Ode-Omu, Osun State
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32. YOUTHDEVELOPMENTINFRASTRUCTURE
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33. YOUTHDEVELOPMENTINFRASTRUCTURE
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34. YOUTHDEVELOPMENTINFRASTRUCTURE
National Youth Development
Centre, Gwaram, Jigawa State
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35. YOUTHDEVELOPMENTINFRASTRUCTURE
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36. SECTION B: AGENCIES OFTHE
MINISTRY
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37. NATIONALYOUTHSERVICECORPS (NYSC)
• Mandate: To mobilizeNigerian Youthsfor national cohesion,
development and self-reliance.
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38. ACTIVITIES OFTHENATIONALYOUTHSERVICE
CORPS
•TheNYSC annually mobilizesan averageof 250,000 graduates. However,
227,136 corpsmembersserved in 2012.
•658 Corpsmembersweretrained and empowered under theMDGsto
establish agro-enterprises.
•131,659 Corpsmemberswere given Skill Acquisition and entrepreneurship
development training.
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39. ACTIVITIES OFNYSC
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40. ACTIVITIES OFNYSC
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41. ACTIVITIES OFNYSC
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42. CITIZENSHIP ANDLEADERSHIPTRAINING
CENTRE(C&LTC)
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43. CITIZENSHIP ANDLEADERSHIPTRAINING
CENTRE(C&LTC)
• TheCitizenship and Leadership Training Centre(CLTC), isoneof the
oldest national institutionsestablished since1951.
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44. CITIZENSHIP ANDLEADERSHIPTRAINING
CENTRE(C&LTC)
•TheCentrehastwo main mandates:
– Providing citizenship and leadership training.
– Establishment and management of Man O’ War Organizations.
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45. ACTIVITIES
• TheCentrepartnered with theGombeStateGovernment for thetraining
and reorienting of over 350 dis-engaged political thugs, popularly known
as‘ yan kalare, to begood citizenssuitablefor employment ashealth and
environmental inspectors.
• The350 youth arecurrently gainfully engaged.
• engaged
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46. ACTIVITIES contd.
SN PERFORMANCEINDICATORS
2012 ( PLANNED
TARGET)
2012 (ACTUALAS AT
DEC.)
1 Inculcating TheVirtueOf Self-reliance
and selflessserviceto thenation
255,000 266,840
2 Imbibetheconceptsof good and
responsibleleadership aswell as
community development
555,850 468,855
3 Youth with market ready skills. 14,050 9,490
4 Understand theunpleasant
consequencesof belonging or
patronizing cultism
7,200 4,800
5 Establish aplatform for Man”o”War
development
5,000 6,257
6 Understand variousinvestment
opportunity and determineto be
productive and employer of Labor
255,000 266,840
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47. REPOSITIONING OF MAN ‘O’ WAR
• Establishment of afunctional national command officewith adequate
staff , well equipped officeaccommodation and the purchaseof a
Peugeot 406 official vehicle.
• Held thefirst joint national meeting with all national officers, state
commandersand statesecretariesin attendance.
• Training programmeheld for Man ‘O’ War information technology
statecommand officersin Abujaon theuseof IT systemsprovided
for each statecommand.
• Reintroduction of Man ‘O’ War in schoolsfor Citizenship and
Leadership education.
The Leadership o the Man O’ War Nigeria Voluntarily undertook the following:
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48. C&LTC PARTNERS
• TheC & LTC hasrecorded increased patronagefrom numerousclientsacross
thecountry in both thepublic and privatesectors. Among them:
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49. SUCCESS
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50. SUCCESS OFTHEMINISTRY ANDITS
AGENCIESS/No
.
NYSC C&LTC
1 SkillsAcquisition Programmeof theSchemehasworked as
Corpsmembersembraced it .
Leadership and lifeskill training
activitiesin theseven (7) Units
2 TheNYSC MDGsWar Against Poverty Programmehas
worked asit exposed and sensitized all Corpsmembersto
theneed for self reliancethrough job creation.
Sensitization programmeproperly
executed
3 Collaboration with stakeholdershasworked especially in
theareaof electoral reforms/conduct of electionsand Corps
empowerment.
Re-organization of Man O War Club
and Associationswassuccessfully
executed
4 Implementation of theapproved expansion of the
AdministrativeStructureof theSchemehasworked asit
hashelped to drivethepoliciesof theSchemethereby
enabling it to copewith thedynamicsof youth mobilization
and management for national development and self-
reliance.
Execution of treasury funded projects
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51. KEY CHALLENGES OFTHEMINISTRY
• Non -Implementation of theNational Youth Policy, especially with regard to
theNational Youth Development Council .
• TheNational Youth Policy providesthat therewill an inter ministerial Council
to becalled theNational Youth Development Council under thechairmanship
of thePresident. It will comprise all theChief Executivesof thecorerelevant
Ministries, e.g Youth Development, WomenAffairs, Education, Labour and
productivity, Agriculture, Health and Tradeand Investment. To serveasforum
and clearing houseon all youth policy mattersof National interest.
• Inappropriateplacement of Youth related projects/programmein other MDAs
and inconsistency in government implementation policy
• Problemsassociated with land allocation within areaswherecentresareto be
built aswell aslack of appropriation for therunning of theyouth development
centresand personnel.
• Insufficient and latereleaseof funds.
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52. CHALLENGES OFNYSC
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53. CHALLENGES OFC&LTC
• Insufficient and latereleaseof fund
• Lack of permanent officeaccommodation for theHeadquarters.
• TheCentrehasonly three(3) permanent Training Unitsin Lagos, Plateau
and Deltastates. Othersareoperating on temporary sites
• Thereisaneed for moreworking equipment and mobility item for
movement of participants
• Construction of standard officeaccommodation for staff in theTraining
Units
• Reduction in thenumber of participantsasaresult of security challengesin
thecountry .
• Staff training and exchangeprogrammsewith Outward Bound
International hasdeclined.
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55. RECOMMENDATIONS contd.
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56. RECOMMENDATIONS contd.
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57. EXPECTATIONS/DELIVERABLES FOR
2013
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58. Thank you!
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