The Center for Democracy and Development (CDD), a Mozambican NGO, today accused the Government of lacking a “clear strategy to lift millions of young people out of unemployment”, pointing out that the executive does not indicate the goals it revised due to the covid-19.
In an analysis of the Action Plan for the Implementation of Youth Policy 2020 (PAIPJ-2020), that non-governmental organization (NGO) criticizes the fact that the executive mentions in the document that he revised down employment goals, but without pointing out the numbers and changed goals.
“It would be interesting to know how many jobs for young people were initially planned in PAIPJ-2020 and how many are expected by the end of the year”, says the CDD.
The organization recalls the controversial announcement by the Mozambican government in April that 48,323 jobs were created in the first 100 days of governing the executive of Filipe Nyusi, who took office for the second term in January.When the announcement was made, the country was already in a state of emergency and had been registering cases of covid-19 for weeks, he recalls.
“The announcement of the downward revision of the PAIPJ-2020 measures reveals that the Government lacked the truth when in April it claimed to have created, in just 100 days, 48,323 jobs,” reads the analysis.
The limitations of the State Budget and the retraction of private domestic and international investment, due to the impact of the covid-19, make the generation of that number of jobs in 100 days unrealistic, considers the CDD.
The NGO even calls the Government’s commitment to create three million jobs in the next five years a “fallacy”.
This number, he continues, would imply that 600 thousand jobs would be generated per year
.The CDD says that it is contradictory for the Secretariat of State for Youth and Sports to assume that 181,340 jobs will be “registered” in the various sectors of economic and social activity “, after the executive promised to create 600 thousand jobs.
On the other hand, he continues, of a universe of about 180 thousand young people who will receive technical and professional training, ‘kits’ for self-employment and financing, only 20,000 will benefit from a direct intervention by the Secretary of State for Youth and Sports.
“This shows that an insignificant number of young people will benefit from the Government’s actions in the employment component, at a time when millions are unemployed or in the informal sector”, says the analysis.
The CDD also notes that the performance of the Mozambican economy has not kept pace with the exponential growth of the population and the number of young people who annually enter the job market.
Citing data from the United Nations, that organization points out that around 400,000 young people seek their first job in Mozambique annually.
