Youth employment: Minister Bogola launches the workshop to develop the national strategy for HIMO approaches

The Ministry of Youth and Sports, through the Guinean Agency for the Execution of Public Interest Works for Employment (AGETIPE) began the launch workshop this Tuesday, November 26, 2024 in a hotel reception in Conakry of the process of developing the national strategy for labor-intensive approaches (HIMO).

The HIMO approach is a lever for employment and sustainable development. This workshop aims to harmonize the knowledge of stakeholders around this approach, with a view to their effective implementation in infrastructure projects across the country.

“The objective of this development is clear. Create a strategic framework by placing the approach within a normative framework that will guide us towards more inclusive and sustainable development. The HIMO strategy is not just a simple document. It is a roadmap that will allow us to create decent jobs, strengthen the skills of young people, encourage the emergence of SMEs and improve the living conditions of our populations, particularly the most vulnerable. The HIMO approach reveals great importance in terms of employment development and the fight against poverty. In terms of development, the HIMO approach makes it possible to inject liquidity into the local economy to stimulate the development of territories. Build a greater number and at lower cost of productive, social, commercial or environmental protection infrastructure. Reduce damage to the environment. In terms of employment and the fight against poverty, the HIMO approach makes it possible to generate employment at the rural and national level. Transfer knowledge about the work to the local community. Contribute to poverty reduction. Promote local know-how »explained Aboubacar Kourouma, Director General of AGETIPE.

The workshop launched today brings together officials from ministries concerned with employment, technical and financial partners as well as members of the HIMO Strategy Monitoring Commission.

On behalf of the International Labor Office (ILO), Frédéric Bando, West African HIMO expert at the ILO Dakar, in his speech on the occasion of the opening ceremony of this workshop, said he was certain that “the options of this new strategy will respond to the efforts made by the government of Guinea to meet the challenges of job creation, poverty reduction, skills development, strengthening the macroeconomic framework and sustainability and resilience ecological infrastructure”.

“I think that this workshop will also be a strong moment to support the members of the monitoring committee in charge of developing this strategy, a committee which plays an important role in data collection, appropriation and monitoring in the ministries sectors”, he said.

For his part, the Minister of Youth and Sports Keamou Bogola Haba welcomed this other step taken, which is added to the national employment policy, the national strategy for the promotion of youth employment and the national volunteering policy. He then invited the participants to work harder to achieve the assigned result.

The national representation of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) also supports this initiative. Naima PAGES, during her intervention, reassured of the support of her institution.

MohamedNana BANGOURA