Actualités Régionales of Monday, 3 November 2014

Source: Cameroon Tribune

Job, vocational training forum held in the South

A forum for local elected representatives on employment and vocational training of young people, was held on 29 and 30 October in Ebolowa in Southern region.

The problem of the employment of young people has led the Ministry of employment and vocational training (Minefop) to consolidate around same tables, under the leadership of Governor Jules Marcellin Ndjaga, and 29 mayors of the southern region.

This forum for local elected representatives focused on the question: "how to facilitate the transfer of skills and resources in respect of employment and vocational training in the region of the South?"

The South has become the main basin of the large ongoing structural projects or future of the country.

Therefore, how to handle appropriately issues of skills, qualification, transfer of technologies, quotas, insertion or vocational rehabilitation even though these are local communities that host these sites and projects?

How to make the action of local elected representatives facing the economic ambitions of the investors in the promotion of local employment and learning effective and up-to-date with technology.

This they intend will better, how to support effectively and efficiently the transfer of skills and employment and training resources in the southern region for the benefit of local elected representatives. All these discussions were under focus.

Jules Marcellin Ndjaga recommended participants to take this opportunity to make an assessment of the process of transfer of competencies and resources for employment, training and employability in the southern region and also, effective and efficient measures and its implementation through the strengthening of their capacities.