BCP 2014 Manifesto Draft Final

9. Sports Development and
Youth Empowerment
9.1 Situational analysis
Youth in Botswana are facing the following challenges of unemployment and
underemployment, poverty, wealth and income inequality, unfriendly reproductive
health system, a collapsing and irrelevant education system, lack of access to land
and housing and economic opportunities as well as lack of representation in key
decision making bodies.
9.2 Our social contract
To develop, nurture, and empower the youth to enable them to reach their full
potential and meaningfully contribute to the development of the country, the BCP
shall;
• Create consistency of laws, regulations, standards and practices in respect of age
of majority for the youth.
• Entrench Affirmative Action in the Youth Policy to encourage youth representation
in decision making.
• Set up a Youth Entrepreneurial Development Agency to assist youth with funding,
training and development and capacity building for business.
• Introduce Employment Tax Incentive for companies that employ unemployed
youth under the age of 36 to promote youth employment, training and skills
development.
• Ratify and domesticate into legislation and implement all youth related conventions,
charters and treaties to align youth laws with international best practices.
• To provide access to youth friendly reproductive health services and establish
substance abuse rehabilitation centres.
• Set up skills development centres around the country to train and equip unskilled
and unemployed youth.
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