| Abstract: | This research report focuses on youth joblessness and related challenges. Youth joblessness
implies missed opportunities in the use of human resources. Thus, the study is expected to
make a significant contribution, since it goes beyond investigating the causal elements to
create a better future for leaders that works for the youth. The research has been organized
in five chapters containing major titles and subtitles with detailed explanations. The research
has designed about three major research objectives so as to conclude the essence of the
whole research. The research covers six study areas in the north shoa zone. The research
basically makes use of descriptive survey research type and employed both qualitiataive and
quantitative methods of data collection from 480 samples together with 102 discussion
participants. The data collected through various data collection tools has been further coded
in to a computer for analysis. The finding of the research concludes that the youth in the
study areas undergo with a series of challenges such as unemployment, underemployment,
marginalization, discrimination and lack of social support. The findings of this research
report confirms the same issue as the youth of the study areas have encountered with low
level of education, increasing number of youth drop out from the school, negative attitude
towards technical and vocational education and agriculture based economic activities. Lack
of access to financial loans in rural areas and massive rural urban migration add to the
severity of the challenging issue. Though there is a significant variation between urban and
rural youth in terms of labor force participation, the factors that govern to the root causes of
the problem also varies from area to area and the attitude that exists on the youth groups. In
general, by reason of the very nature of the area context, age, behavior, ambition,
availability of resources, by the nature of family background and related socio-economic
characteristics youths of the study areas have been continuously shouldering a similar
livelihood and survival challenges. We all unless and otherwise come up with remedial
action that foster the youth for greater socio-economic changes; the fate of good opportunity
of the country in the use of human resource would eventually filled up with adversities. |
