Employment, vocational integration strategies adopted

David Musunda, Zambian Minister Of Youth And Sport

Wed, 18 Feb 2015 Source: The Sun Newspaper

Officials of the central and devolved services of the Ministry of Employment and Vocational Training have adopted strategies to improve efficiency in the national training system for employment and vocational integration.

These strategies were adopted last January 29 at the Yaoundé Conference Centre at the end of the 10th Annual Conference of officials of this ministry that culminated on the presentation of New Year Wishes to Minister Zacharie Perevet.

Minister Perevet urging staff delegates to work in synergy to attain objectives Addressing his collaborators at the end of three days brainstorming on the theme “increasing the efficiency of the national training system for employment and vocational integration” Minister Zacharie Perevet said. “You have in the course of your work properly assessed the efficiency of our vocational training system both at the internal and external levels.

You have been able to agree on a diagnosis without indulgence leading to the necessary measures to be taken in order to improve and intensify the support for integration in the circuit of decent employment or retraining in general and a first integration concerning mainly trained youths.”

The Minister urged the private sector to continuously assist the government in vocational training and job creation.

Giving the balance sheet of their performance in 2014, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Employment and Vocational Training, Ngobo Ekotto Jeanne Aimée revealed that “the data on jobs generated by Public Investment Budget and the National Employment Fund gave a total of 322.580 jobs created as of December 31 2014, despite the reluctance of some employers to provide information on the workers employed by them.

Source: The Sun Newspaper