Youth Career Development: A Special Focus on Sierra Leone
- Author Juliet Rogers
- DOI https://ww
- Country : Sierra Leone
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Keywords : Youth Career Development; Sierra Leone; Education; Employment; Green Skills; Green Tourism; Digital Media; Leadership.
Abstract
The issue of youth involvement in development has always been a topical one, and it remains significant in global public discussions. As a result, each nation must tailor its youth policies to meet its own specific needs rather than taking a broad approach.
In Sierra Leone, both past and present governments have shown some concern for the youth, albeit with some similarities. In 2003, His Excellency Ahmad Tejan Kabbah established a youth ministry and a national youth policy. His government's primary goals were to instil a sense of dignity in labour in the youth and to instil national consciousness and patriotism in their hearts and minds. [27]
The former President Ernest Bai Koroma's government established the National Youth Commission. All of these efforts are aimed at achieving youth empowerment in national development. However, despite these efforts, the challenge of youth empowerment remains a major one. The youth are still plagued by poverty, unemployment, discrimination, and a lack of the skills and knowledge necessary to obtain decent jobs. One would therefore think that amid these difficulties in career development for youths, an alternative approach could be grafted into the scheme of youths' concerns for holistic national development. In this flicker of hope are green skills and green tourism. [7, 8, 14, 17, 33]
This study carefully examined early childhood and youth education, skill and mindset education, youth employment challenges, and leadership and career development interventions. Most of which are embedded in green skills and green tourism. To achieve youth empowerment in Sierra Leone in all of these areas, the study recommends the following:
— Education institutions with revised curricula.
— Self reawakening of knowledge.
— Adequate loan facilities with low-interest rates, especially for agriculture-based industries.
— Respect and care for the cultural heritage of our country.
— Motivation for academic excellence.
— Support for recyclable materials and mitigation of climate change hazards.
— The establishment of industries and factories to expand the job market.
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