THE United Nations and its agencies in Tanzania in collaboration with the Prime Minister’s Office has organized a three-day knowledgesharing workshop in Dodoma beginning tomorrow.
The workshop follows a joint implemented
programme by the UN and its agencies between 2015 coming to an end. The
programme was focused on five high impact priority areas of sustainable
enterprise development.
It also focused on decent work for
youth, enhancing agriculture productivity, skills development and
building labour market information systems. Deputy Minister in the Prime
Minister’s Office (Policy, Parliamentary Affairs, Labour, Employment,
Youth and People with Disabilities), Dr Abdallah Possi, is scheduled to
be guest of honour.
“The workshop aims at assessing and
highlighting the achievements made and challenges met in the course of
implementation of this programme,” according to a statement issued in
Dar es Salaam yesterday.
The event is meant to provide key
stakeholders with on-the-field experience of selected interventions,
providing project beneficiaries opportunities to share their experiences
and achievements.
There will be as well exhibitions of
products by beneficiaries. The event is also expected to facilitate
networking and exchanges on youth employment agenda.
The workshop will bring together about
150 participants, including representatives from various ministries,
development and social partners, youth, researchers, the academia, the
media and civil society organizations.
In addition to holding youth dialogues
and presentations, participants will also visit various projects’
beneficiaries in Dodoma and Singida.
Among those to be visited include
beekeeping projects in Dodoma and Singida, production of quality
sunflower seeds variety for oil production as well as youth industrial
and fabrication services.
The UN implementing agencies for the
programme include the International Labour Organization (ILO), Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO) and United Nations Industrial Development
Organization (UNIDO).
The other agency was the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women).
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