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SWAPO PARTY SWAPO Parliamentary Office Contribution By Hon Agnes Kafula On Budget Speech 1 ~JJ~ Honourable?\Speaker Honourable Members I rise to support and thank Honourable Calle Schlettwein for the tabling the Budget financial year, a fOllrth 'mder the--ad-mlnistr:ati-GFt-ef--hi-sExce IIeocy President-Dr-HeqeGeingcb, 1n the same breath allow me to also thank those who contributed for the 2018/19 towards budget.
the Honourable Minister, From the onset in his budget statement rightly put it and I quote "This Budget comes at a time after the Namibian economy had endured its most precarious It is an economy at a turning point and this budget phase.

is a funding compact less less poverty and improved services delivery".

My inequality, for we have an interest continues to be on the social sector, obligation to uplift our constituents.
for growth, bringing about jobs, Social Sector According to the Statistics, unemployment stands at 34 percent taking up 43.4 of the unemployment with youth unemployment rate.

More than 71.3 percent of unemployed in Namibia have not education.

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The statistic presents a worrisome picture as the high level of young unemployment can lead to economically frustrated I youth which can contribute to social institution to investigate the call upon the responsible contributing junior secondary and strengthen the implementation of strategies that aims at improving and reducing the unemployment amongst factors to high level of drop out at instability.

For that; the youth.

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I would further ladies are being affected by unemployment, do it deliberately perhaps like to draw your attention to how young I would say ignoring the the employers 2 affirmative action policy or perhaps we still have to wait to see the results of government efforts in gender disparity.
We are informed by the Namibian labour force statistics and demographics, that although women are the majority of our the statistics indicate that only 47 population by 51 percent percent of women are employed compared to 53 percent of males are employed.

In other words, out of the 34 percent of the une~ed, majority are females.
Honourablefpeaker employed, researched on because the It is an issue worth to be further to population ratio (EPR) indicates that out of the Employment degree males about 65% hold a university compared to the 59% of females who have a degree.

I believe inequalities such as this are the root causes to poverty cycles ills such as gender-based violence, prostitutions and social etc.

because women on men for better livelihood.

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His Excellency President Hage Geingob, encourages us all to be more inclusive, he always say's 'inclusivity spells peace and harmony, while exclusivity spells discord and conflict'.

I use this quote with regards to private sector employers and even Government institutions which always ask young graduates for job experience.
One of the factors mostly overlooked is the fact that practical experience is largely acquired from internships which can hardly be secured by students.

is the real reason students find it so hard to secure internship we they qualify for poor wages as they Are so that students denying What internships?

opportunities lack skills?


3 Honourable Members As law makers often blame the increase of Alcohol and Drug I am Abuse on youth however, after engaging social workers, reliably informed that young people do not opt for drugs and alcohol voluntarily.

to deny that alcohol and drug abuse is a problem in Namibia, however we need to put in an effort to save the young people.
I also do not want With our population we cannot only have one state-owned rehabilitation center in which is Etegameno Rehabilitation and Resource Centre (ERRC) which only serves about 80 patients in a year of which none of them are young people.

Let us call on the private sector, especially those who sell alcohol or at least part of the sin tax to be allocated in rehabilitating our young people.
In conclusioEJ_ Honou ra blel'Spea ker Honourable members together labour has the database or at in one direction in ensuring that we Let us all pull I understand the address these challenges facing our societies.
least encourage the ministry of unemployed to register with them, I would also like to believe the Namibia Training Authority and Namibia Qualifications Authority have a database on the graduates or perhaps we need to conduct a tracer study on which graduates found employment, this will help us avoid the future mismatch between training and the jobs skills required by the employer.

In view of these Hon Members, I support the Bill.

I thank you.

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