Lesotho: Addressing Budget Planning, Forecasting, and Resource Allocation Challenges With Lesotho Women and Youth

Youth unemployment and exclusion in policy decision-making processes are critical development challenges in Lesotho. The country’s population, which constitutes about 40% of the productive asset- human capital remains disenfranchised.

The efforts to ease the challenges of integrating youth into the labour market through the promotion of self-employment placed much emphasis on enterprise development, culminating with different programmes such as the Employment Promotion Project (YEP) and others,…