The scheme aims to create at least 774,000 empowerment opportunities through direct youth empowerment over a minimum period of two years.
The P-YES scheme covers the “Youth” defined in the Nigerian National youth policy (2009) as male and female individuals whose ages are between 18 and 40 years old.
This programme is powered by the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, and coordinated by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Youth and Students Affairs.
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To enhance production, productivity and value addition for new and existing urban and rural entrepreneurs across the 774 Local Government Areas across Nigeria on a sustainable basis
Empowerment
Build the capacity of the youth to enable them take charge of their own wellbeing and future by building their assets and realizing their potential to achieve greater goals
Core Values
To fight the scourge of social vices among youth by empowering them to be productively engaged. To help achieve the financial inclusion strategy of the Federal Government of Nigeria
GENERAL OBJECTIVE
The scheme is designed to equip the youth with requisite skills, knowledge and resources that will make them productive; thereby reducing poverty and creating an economically empowered youth population that can contribute meaningfully to national growth.
“The presidential youth empowerment scheme is government’s vision to raise a youth population that will be empowered to fight the scourge of unemployement and poverty.”
INTERVENTION PROGRAMMES
Agriculture
ICT & Mobile money
Fashion
Catering
Technical Acquisition
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P-YES … Empowering tomorrow
