{"id":196758,"date":"2025-04-25T11:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T09:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-unlocking-cameroonian-youths-potential-for-more-and-better-jobs\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T11:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T09:40:16","slug":"cameroon-unlocking-cameroonian-youths-potential-for-more-and-better-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-unlocking-cameroonian-youths-potential-for-more-and-better-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Unlocking Cameroonian Youth&#8217;s Potential for More and Better Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">STORY HIGHLIGHTS<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Young individuals aged 18 to 35 constitute 57% of Cameroon&#8217;s labor force, yet a significant number face challenges in securing employment. The rapid population growth and urbanization underscore the urgent need for improved job opportunities.<\/li>\n<li>To meet this challenge, Cameroon is implementing a dual-track approach to youth employment through the Adaptive Safety Nets and Economic Inclusion Project, supported by the World Bank.<\/li>\n<li>The BPC program supports 2,000 young business owners&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504250010.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STORY HIGHLIGHTS Young individuals aged 18 to 35 constitute 57% of Cameroon&#8217;s labor force, yet a significant number face challenges in securing employment. The rapid population growth and urbanization underscore the urgent need for improved job opportunities. To meet this challenge, Cameroon is implementing a dual-track approach to youth employment through the Adaptive Safety Nets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":196759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,4698,377,382,6643,257,9398,254,29435,8619],"class_list":["post-196758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cameroonian","tag-jobs","tag-news","tag-potential","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unlocking","tag-youths"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}