Youth empowerment schemes (YES) are programmes designed to encourage youths to learn and acquire some basic self-sustaining skills, trades, occupations or professions to help build a solid foundation for employment and wealth creation, and poverty reduction.
THE YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SCHEMES IN NIGERIA
- National Directorate of Employment (NDE)
- National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP)
- National Economic Empowerment & Development Strategy (NEEDS)
- Youth Enterprise with Innovation in Nigeria (YouWin)
- Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SUREP)
- Youth Initiative for Sustainable Agriculture in Nigeria (YISA)
- Graduate Internship Scheme (GIS)