Youths At Centre of FCFA 50 Million Govt Projects in Kumbo

MINHDU initiative to ensure job creation for youths.

Youths are about to be recruited and trained to implement a cfa 50 million worth of community projects in Kumbo, Bui division that feature on the 2013 public investment budget. It is all about the new labour-based approach in government projects to ensure the harmonious and balanced development of the nation's cities, supply decent jobs, promote local expertise and ensure massive job creation. The innovation hangs on a platform that covers the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development (MINDHU), Regional and local authorities to develop and implement investment programs .

In effect, the 2013 investment budget features cfa 50 million for the projects in Kumbo which include drainage of rain water and earth roads in the Kumbo council area. The revelation emerged from a Bamenda workshop to build the capacity of urban actors for the implementation of the labour-based approach in public investment projects. It was against this backdrop that the Inspector General in charge of Technical Affairs in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, Ali Salihou told stakeholders that MINDHU, the architect and town planner of the State puts youths at the centre of its programs and projects. He took time off to deplore prism and urban disorders that reign in most cities, the anarchical occupation of space, proliferation of precarious and spontaneous housing and unemployment of youths, thereby leading to alcoholism, drug addiction, crime etc.

Ali Salihou said the initiative to give youths opportunities in the implementation of community projects will help cut the acute problem of underemployment and poverty in the cities. It also emerged that the government prioritizes actions to fight unemployment.