African Development Bank Launches Multinational Project for Youth Empowerment in Nigeria, DRC, Uganda
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The African Development Bank has launched a multinational project to create jobs and improve livelihoods for youth in three African countries.
The Creating Sustainable Youth MSMEs Through Urban Farming (SYMUF) initiative will support young farmers in Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda, who are attracted to urban farming.
The bank is partnering with a consortium of incubation centres in participating countries to implement the project. They are the Africa Projects Development Centre (APDC) in Nigeria, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA-Bukavu) in the DRC, and the African Agribusiness Incubation Network in Uganda.
The SYMUF project has received $937,000 in grant funding from the Fund for African Private Sector Assistance, a multi-donor trust fund managed by the African Development Bank.
Photo courtesy of UNAMID.
Source: TechEconomyNG (link opens in a new window)
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