FCTA To Launch Youth Development Policy Document

Mandate secretary of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Youth Development Secretariat, Comrade Abdullahi Ango, has said the secretariat is getting set to come up with the first-ever FCT Youth Development Policy Document, in a bid to hit the ground running on a very sound footing.

Ango while explaining the rationale for a policy that will aggregate issues facing youth across the FCT, and shall serve as a framework for addressing them holistically, at a Review, Validation and Adoption meeting with all stakeholders yesterday, said the purpose of this policy is to set guidelines for the delivery of programmes and projects related to youth development.

In a statement signed by the acting chief information officer to the mandate secretary, Darlington Omotosho. the mandate secretary who was represented at the Review meeting by Ambassador Asabe Umar, Director Youth Development Department disclosed that already some states have taken the lead in Lagos, Osun and many more thinking in that direction.

“The United Nations World Programme of Action for Youth, 2000 and beyond, encourages Governments to be more responsive to the aspirations of youth for a better world, as well as to respond to the demands of youth to be part of the solution, rather than be considered as the problem.

“Taking the initiative to draft the FCT  youth development policy is a practical demonstration that youth are a priority of the FG and the FCT Administration. It is also a declaration for youth development, a vision statement, a framework for political action, and a blueprint of the status, rights, responsibilities and roles of youth,” he said.