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Youth Empowerment for Green Job |
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The country is facing problem related to youth unemployment which will become more acute in the next decade as the labor force in the region is also expected to grow by around 2.1 percent a year, warns the International Labor Organization (ILO). According to the report" Report on the Nepal Labor Force Survey" published by the Department of Statistics, Nepal in 2008, a large number of young people are semi unemployed and unemployed. In Nepal, more than 2 million youth are totally unemployed, according to studies. Nearly 49.9 percent urban youth and 32.2 percent rural youth are unemployed. In 2009, more than 2 million 52 thousand 8 hundred youth above the age of 15 are completely unemployed which is 42 percentages more than the previous year. Due to the lack of governmental policies and program to provide employment opportunities, more than 700 youth leave the country abroad in search of job. According to the statistics, at least half a million youth enter the labor market every year. As the state fails to chalk out proper strategies to provide jobs, the problem is gaining urgency day by day. The increasing rate of unemployment has turned the youths into a frustrated lot. This may even encourage them to engage in destructive activities like terrorism. They suffer low self-esteem, exclusion from mainstream society and impoverishment. Youth are very important from the point of view of socio-economic productivity so they should be able to get decent jobs to end the vicious cycle of discrimination and poverty. Most of the rural youth who hail from poor households enter the towns either in search of job opportunities or for further studies upon completion of school education. Some youth do not get job despite their strong effort. When young women and young men do not have an opportunity to find a job, they are more likely to feel excluded from society and lose their individual sense of self-esteem. Youth who enter the labor market in depressed circumstances are more likely to have difficulties throughout their working life. These factors can lead to crime and unrest. Therefore, there is a need of an initiative to empower the youth for personal and social economic development to avoid possible conflict. Likewise, the country has also experienced massive environmental degradation. Nepal has experienced the worst deforestation (around 82,794 hectares of forests) in the last three decades. This has led water resource depletion, species extinction, carbon emission and put the human security at risk due to natural disasters too. The excessive use of pesticides had led to land degradation and food insecurity. Of the total vegetable farmers, 92 percent use chemical pesticide. It is equally important to address the environmental problems while addressing the youth poverty and unemployment. The youth can play important role in the development of ecologically sustainable community if the unemployed youth are made environmentally aware and empowered with environmental management skills too at a time when they are empowered for economic development with technical education and vocational training courses. Therefore, there is a need of youth empowerment for economy and ecology both so that the youth will consider and save environment while carrying out income generation activity or engaging in micro green enterprise. Taking these issues into serious consideration, Team for Nature and Wildlife (TNW), a youth led environmental organization has launched the project titled "Youth Empowerment for Green Job". The project has been awarded with UN HABITAT Youth Fund by the UN-HABITAT in 2009 and with Youth Fund by the Ministry of Youth and Sports in 2010 and 2011 to launch the project. DOWNLOAD Report in PDF verson for Detail >> Report of Youth Empowerment for Green Job Project 2011 Youth Empowerment for GreenJob UN Report Summary Youth Empowerment for Green Job Chitwan Report |
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