This activity should take you about 25 – 30 minutes to complete.
Post your answers to questions 2 and 4 in the discussion forum. Also, read answers posted by peers into that forum.
Social problems include,voter apathy,social unrest,mistrust of government leaders, isolation,disengagement from community and feeling excluded.
Regions with highest youth unemployment rates: MENA and North America
Regions with lowest youth unemployment rates : South East Asia a
nd Sub Saharan Africa
So, is there any way that hope can be revived in young people in your country? Who should play a role in restoring such hope and how should they do it?
Government and other stakeholders like the community,NGOs ,the church can work in partnership to create national service centres where life skills ,and other training can be given to youths for them to sustain themselves. This can be helpful for street children who are on the rise.
The government is providing bursaries for youth skills training through use of constituency development funds.
The youth are forgotten during serious involvement with the society due to their unemployment status and also age.
Africa and Sub Saharan Africa have high unemployment rate due to higher percentage with comparative population. Mena on the other hand has lower unemployment rate
2.Some of the social and economic problems of youth unemployment include; youths facing social mobility and opportunity gaps, young people facing financial hardship and breakdown, mental health issues and increased crime and risky behaviors.
4. The highest youth unemployment rate recorded were Mena-26.8% and North America-18.48%.
The lowest unemployment rate was from the countries -South East Asia 10.8% and Sub-Saharan Africa 15.71%.
From this we can see that youth unemployment has far reaching social and economic consequences that can create long-lasting disadvantages that leads to poverty and even inequality if not addressed effectively.
Some countries have lower youth unemployment rates due to favorable economic structures, there is introduction to education and training skills for youths causing more skills in the workforce. And government providing more job opportunities that can cater those who have also some basic skills to enter workforce.
Answer to Question 2:
The major social and economic problems of youth unemployment include but not limited to:
(i) Inability to contribute meaningfully to national development;
(ii) Lack of trust the political class
(iii) Civil Unrest (protests)
(iv) Inability to secure jobs on merit
(v) Poor political participation;
Answer to Question 4:
The two regions with highest unemployment rate are MENA (26.28%) and North America (18.48%); while the regions with the least unemployment rates are South East Asia (10.18%) and Sub-Saharan Africa (15.71%)
Answer to Question 5:
In Fiji, 14.9% of the youth population are unemployed.
It looks like you are doing very well in Fiji to keep the youth out of unemployment. As you will have seen form this Unit, youth unemployment in some countries is well over 30%. Would you like to share some of the strategies your government uses to secure employment for the youth?
I am from Nigeria, but used available information in the Chart provided on Fiji.
However, Fijians were given the second-chance education opportunities of getting out of NEETS through the following strategies as seen on pages 46 and 47 of text:
(i) Matua programme;
(ii) Marist Champagnat Institute (MCI);
(iii) Youth Training Centres (YTCs);
(iv) Youth Grant Programme;
(v) Mobile Skills Training; and
(vi) Seeds of Success.
These are strategies that minimised unemployment rates in Fiji.
You did well. that was good analysis.
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- What are the major social and economic problems of youth unemployment?
• Financial matters from parents
• Involve in crimes and drugs
• Civil unrest alcohol
4… Which two of the reported regions have the highest youth unemployment rates and which two have the lowest?
• Samoa and New Caledonia
Pacific Island Countries with very low youth unemployment rates are Solomon Islands (2.82%), Vanuatu (5.07%), Papua New Guinea (5.2%) and Australia (8.29%). Other countries outside the Pacific region with low youth unemployment rates are Cambodia (0.85%) and Thailand (4.47%).
Activity 3
- Read Case study 2 below to understand challenges faced by people with special needs (disabilities) when it comes to access to formal education.
• Discriminations and negative attitude among important obstacles which lead the special needs to less access to education.
• Insufficient provision of funds is the biggest issues which they not have equal shares of fund to access to education for students with disability. none of them sufficient to make and have available the full range of services needed for special needs (disabilities)
• Policies that are not written to include the disabilities with normal students to access educations.
They are, quite obviously, a very diverse group with very different challenges and as such difficult to serve with a one-size-fits-all-approach. - What policies are there in your country to mainstream young people with disabilities in education, training and employment?
• In My country of Solomon Islands, the ministry of education was able to endorse the policy called “Solomon Islands National Disability inclusive Policy”. This policy has been established in the year 2016 of March.
This policy has not so effective but schools manage to include the special needs student to access education. The problem here which this policy was not so effective because most teachers here in Solomon Islands do not leant or train on how to handle the special needs in the class so teachers also find it hard to teach the special needs. However, to improve such problem of mainstreaming of disabled people, training teachers should have also trained to control the behavior of these special needs, Government should provide a special institution of these special need so that they have freedom of their surroundings to learn in education. By doing that, these special needs can able to contribute in the countries economic development.
New approches are being pilotedto help young people with disabilities by addressing education gaps early. services work for disabled youth ( i.e ensure that they access to mainstream intermediation services and skills training.