NDE commences vocational training in rural communities

 The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has commenced the training of unskilled and unemployed persons in various vocational skills in rural communities nationwide under the Community Based Training Scheme (CBTS).  A statement by Edmund Onwuliri,   NDE  Deputy Director Information and Public Relations,  said  the training which was in its third year of implementation would last […]

 The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has commenced the training of unskilled and unemployed persons in various vocational skills in rural communities nationwide under the Community Based Training Scheme (CBTS).
 A statement by Edmund Onwuliri,   NDE  Deputy Director Information and Public Relations,  said  the training which was in its third year of implementation would last three months and  that it was unique as the skills set were environment specific and demand driven.
“The training is designed to check rural to urban migration, provide marketable skills for school leavers and dropouts with a view to generating employment opportunities for them which will lead to wealth creation, poverty reduction and equally curb societal crimes and youth restiveness occasioned by unemployment.
“A rural community has been selected from one of the three senatorial districts per state for the implementation of this scheme countrywide.
“About 1,850 youths, particularly those from poor and vulnerable households, would be provided the opportunity to acquire specialised skills that are in high demand within their immediate localities at the rate of 50 persons per state and the FCT.
“This strategy is aimed at improving the rural labour market and matching job demand and supply inter-relationships,” he  said.
He said the training scheme would give prominence to emerging skills in the construction sector such as tiling, POP works, interlocking stones, among others.
Onwuliri said all successful persons would be resettled by the directorate at the end of the training with equipment and cash as soft loans to commence small-scale businesses of their own using the freshly acquired skills. He said the NDE plans to run two more cycles of the CBTS initiative before the end of the year.