The Oromiya regional state has created more than 886,000 new jobs for unemployed youths found across the region during the last ten months of this budget year.
Deputy Director of job creation with the region, Daniel Elano, told WMC that the region has identified about 987,000 jobless youths residing in rural and urban areas of the region and managed to engage 886, 274 youths in different sectors with temporary and permanent employment levels.
According to Daniel, the region has created new jobs for unemployed youths in the sectors of manufacturing, construction, service, trade, agriculture and animal breeding using the revolving fund allocated by the government within ten months period.
Daniel noted that Oromiya region is providing trainings, loan and technical supports for youths organized to be engaged in different sectors across the region.
Those graduated from universities and technical and vocational training institutes have become beneficiaries of job creation activities within the region, Daniel underscored. So far, about 1.5 billion birr is spent for the job creation activities, he added.
Furthermore, the Oromiya region is providing working and marketing areas for free to encourage unemployed youths found in the urban areas of the region, Daniel stated.
The region has also given about 112,000 hectares of land for jobless youths engaged in agriculture and animal breeding sectors in rural areas, he inculcated.
The Oromiya regional state has allocated a total of 4.2 billion birr for youth job creation during this budget year, Walta learnt.