Youth Enablement & Employment - CTECH Youth Enablement, Employment and Tracking
Focus on our "post-school" youth transition to adulthood and becoming economically active though providing them practical tools, platforms and services that will allow them to take responsibility for their future
Why Post-School Youth?
All young people need support and opportunities to make a successful transition to adulthood. The focus of a positive youth development is to ensure youth acquire the capacity, knowledge, tools and skills they need to become healthy and productive adults. It is important to build on young people’s strengths and recognise their unique contributions.
Youth Employment in South Africa
Long-term unemployment, in South Africa, among both the youth and adults is estimated to have been over 65% for most years since the recession, according to a report, which focuses on the youth and the national and provincial labour market.
Of the 31.5 million working-age people aged 15 to 64 years in 2008, 18.2 million were young people aged 15 to 34 years. Population growth over subsequent years meant that by 2015 the working-age population stood at 35.8 million, of which 19.7 million (55%) were young people
It is estimated that as many as 3.6 million young people were unemployed, in 2015. According to Stats SA as many as 55% of young people are actively looking for jobs have education levels below matric, while an additional 36.4% have only a matric qualification. In 2015 as many as 44.5% had an education level below matric, while an additional 36.9% had only matric. Relatively few employed young people (21.2%) had a tertiary education. (Financial crisis hits SA youth the hardest, Fin24, Jun 29 2015)
Programme Focus
The program focuses on capacitating post-school youth, this includes:
Post-youth social media mobile platform
Communicating specific content to youth communities
Building youth capacity through communication
Developing online chats and mentorships
Access to further development programs
Vocational
University
NGO programs
Access to funding for further development
Corporate bursaries
Global and local funding
"Crowd funding"
Job creation and placement
Youth Tracking
