Mozambique: Government opens job centre and youth incubator in Pemba, Cabo Delgado – Watch

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Mozambique: Government opens job centre and youth incubator in Pemba, Cabo Delgado – Watch

4:20 CAT | 30 Jun 2023

All photos: Secretaria de Estado da Juventude e Emprego

Mozambique on Thursday inaugurated an employment centre and youth incubator in the city of Pemba in Cabo Delgado province, in the north of the country, set up with the support of Portugal.

The employment centre now in operation will provide professional training courses in the areas of electricity, carpentry, civil construction, plumbing, human resources, business administration and catering.

The youth incubator will help equip beneficiaries with the skills to develop business projects aimed at self-employment.

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The Secretary of State for Youth and Employment of Mozambique, Osvaldo Petersburgo, said that the project would expand the range of technical and professional training opportunities for young people in Cabo Delgado, in a context in which unemployment is identified as one of the factors favouring the recruitment of young people by armed groups operating in the province.

Petersburgo called on the managers of the centre and the incubator to maximize quality, ensuring excellence in the training provided. “It is not the expectation of those who invested resources in this centre that the Mozambicans who come here to train will be poorly served,” he said.

Representing the Portuguese embassy in Mozambique, Patrícia Pincarilho said the creation of job opportunities for young people in Cabo Delgado would be one of the great gains from the centre and incubator.

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“The project aims to increase the economic opportunities of the population of Cabo Delgado, in particular young people, contributing to improving access to decent work and income,” Pincarilho observed.

She highlighted the importance of professional training in allowing beneficiaries to enter the natural gas exploitation value chain in the Rovuma basin, which is located in Cabo Delgado.

Cabo Delgado has been facing an armed insurgency for five years with some attacks claimed by the extremist group Islamic State.

The insurgency has led to a military response since July 2021 with the support of Rwanda and the Community for the Development of Southern Africa (SADC), liberating districts next to the gas projects, but new waves of attacks have appeared in the south of the region and in the neighbouring province. from Nampula.

The conflict has already made one million people displaced, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and around 4000 deaths, according to the conflict registration project, ACLED.

Source: Lusa