Liberian Youth Development - Need for National Collaboration

Even though youth development may be considered from different perspectives, it is simply a process of capacitating young people to become productive citizens. For a country like ours that has undergone turbulent times, the issue of youth development has become not only uncompromising, but a national obligation. This is why both the public and private sectors are placing the issue of youth development at the core of their programs and projects across the country.

While the private sector, most especially non-governmental organizations, must be hailed for its initial interventions immediately following years of crisis here, the government's position, in terms of playing a leading role in the process, must now attract the attention of us all, and not only those who run the administration. Realizing that the young people are, no doubt, the engine for national development and being cognizant of the fact that in as much as local and international NGO's have been in the vanguard of helping in the process of transforming the nation's 'future leaders', it thought to exert itself, through a leading role, by emphasizing youth development in its fiscal budget.

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