April program
Change in practices to preserve socioeconomic activity in the village in the country of Cameroon
Objective : Raise awareness among young people of the dangers of radicalization - Sheet 4
Origin of the reflection
The promotion of youth entrepreneurship is represented by the PEJVA-L Group which was created in 2019 by the Central Committee of AGCE International to promote the socio-economic integration of the Organization's youth in Cameroon.
Through social mobilization and technical and financial supervision, with a view to making it the real engine of the country's local development and effectively combating the radicalization of underprivileged youth, we help youth through activities ranging from against delinquency, theft, illegal immigration, prostitution ... through training and local socio-economic empowerment of young people ...
Alongside the PEJVA-L group, we also have the GEAJ-F and the DGPE-I, whose general objectives are to ensure the socio-economic integration and technological support of rural youth in the towns and slums of Cameroon, through the rapid and simplified training and support for disadvantaged young people in the manufacture and sale of services produced through projects which have benefited from financial credit, in particular in the sector of the manufacture of services and transformation of local products into sold items. From 2019 until 2021, the number of mobilized young people registered by the PEJVA-L group remained stable, but regularly, the members of the Steering Committee of AGCE (CDA), encourage young people to register in high numbers by constituting their group and team made up of technicians, considering the PEJVA-L as having to bring out their ambitions in positive socio-economic results without taking unnecessary risks.
As expected, driven by the number of members already selected, the young people registered have increased over the years. Meanwhile, the number of young people to be funded stagnates, and remains frozen on zero funding. This inferiority may be due to the amount to be allocated to micro-projects which support a group and for which the public authorities, local and international partners are slow to allocate funds to us due to the lack of "NGO approval" that the Executive Board. and the Central Committee of AGCE hope to obtain from the MINISTER OF TERRITORIAL ADMINITRATION AND DECENTRALIZATION (MINATD) in 2021.
This NGO approval could sufficiently ensure AGCE, funding support for young applicants for their project, to be self-employed, and who did not give up while the number of young applicants increased. The PEJVA-L has enabled nearly 50 young people and 02 agricultural / poultry young GICs to develop self-employment initiatives over the 2019-2021 period in the Littoral region, they will be able to stabilize them and extend the activities of the group of 150 self-employment executives for young people or more in the departments of Wouri, NKAM, SANAGA MARITIME, MUNGO, SOUTH WEST and NORD-WEST during the period 2021-2024, thanks to cumulative funding of more than 861 million to 40 billion FCFA expected, coming from local and international support. Just as the GEAJ-F, the PEJVA-L, the DGPE-I ... had to propose the placement of more than 50 young executives in self-employment, the expected supports will allow the various groups of AGCE activities to place more than 56,000 young people in training centers and then in direct and indirect self-employment (on physical sites and on personalized online professional digital socio-economic platforms) within 1 to 5 years.
This will create many direct and indirect jobs, or on average more than 1,200 direct jobs per year and 4,800 indirect jobs (online, temporary) by 2022 to 2026. Youth remains the most affected social layer. by unemployment, according to the latest Surveys on Employment and the Informal Sector (2005 and 2010). Between 2005 and 2010, the overall underemployment of 15-35 year olds increased, as did vulnerable jobs and the low wage rate. Registrations of under-35s have seen a real increase, from nearly 40,000 in 2012 to more than 190,000 in 2014, factors which are encouraging the rapid rise in migratory flows of young people to Western countries as well as seems to justify the radicalization of young people, which the AGCE activity groups would like to contribute to de-radicalize in order to reduce these scourges among young Cameroonians through the PEJVA-L.
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Raising awareness among young people of the dangers of radicalization - Sheet 4
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Steps
Many niches intended for modern and technological organic agro-pastoral activities have been initiated by the AGCE groups, integrating young people into the groups and teams of AGCE associations to act in 2021-2026.
The activities of PEJVA-L in this sector make it possible to supply the same fruit farmer, the Restaurant de Cœur, thanks to the self-employment agrifood center which recruits users directly in the field of activities and indirectly on platforms socio-economic digital socio-professional who administer the activities of young self-employed people.
Then, young conventional farmers will quickly be able to take an interest in these niches of PEJVA-L and GEAJ-F activities to ensure sales and then training for their groups and teams, plus the activities will follow a practical axis. Beyond profitable activities and training, there are also many discussions and exchanges within the regional and departmental groups of PEJVA-L. The registrants (members) compare their methods.
At the same time, the PEJVA-L can continue to organize activities on a wide variety of themes targeting a large audience of young producers (restaurateurs, dieticians, breeders, farmers, etc.). The more activities open up to the Littoral region, the more quickly they will spread to the 9 other regions of the country.
The results
Young people supervised by activities, in particular those resulting from the implementation of projects that have been selected locally, will thus be able to continue to maintain a socioeconomic activity in the country. The reflection on alternative methods has led members to find solutions to other areas derived from their main activity such as the drying of cassava, smoked fish, dried and processed maize, the transformation of charity butter into a manufactured product. , dried peanuts and processed into paste, dried and packaged beans ... the goal of transforming them into food safety was to destine these products for sale on the local and international consumer market for human consumption ( farm families and consumers) and animals.
The number of PEJVA-L members remains stable, it should increase sharply with the increase in activity by 2026. PEJVA-L officials keep this experience as exchanges with organic farmers and local and international consumers offer more added value to their service at regional, national and international level. The PEJVA-L will set up in 2022 the training of a framework intended for “prospective”.
The teachings
The managers and some members will have to know how to seize a new demand in their immediate environment and to make it a work and business opportunity. They will be able to adapt their activities to the socioeconomic needs of the Cameroonian territory. Despite this evolution, the PEJVA-L remains a framework faithful to the value to which it applies new performances for its usefulness: exchanges, discussions, debates. It will continue to propose actions likely to interest all young conventional and self-employed people until its objectives are reached in 2026.