By: Alex Adi
In an effort to minimise youth unemployment in the region, the ECOWAS Commission as part of the Regional Strategy for Youth Employment in Agricultural Value Chains has donated two million, two hundred and thirty-eight thousand US Dollars (2,238,000 US Dollars) to Ten (10) Agricultural Research Centres in the Region in Porto Novo, Republic of Benin.
The grant will help train 3,850 young people, 40% of whom are women
The cheques were presented by Mrs. Massandjé TOURE-LITSE, the Commissioner of Economic Affairs and Agriculture, of the ECOWAS Commission.
This was during the opening ceremony of a workshop to sensitise and mobilise the various beneficiary Centres of the 2024/2025 Grant on the content of the Regional Strategy for Youth Employment in Agricultural Value Chains.
It also focuses on issues related to the professional integration of young people in the agro-sylvo-pastoral and halieutic sector at the Songhai Centre in Porto Novo.
