To Create an Unemployment Free Village
Challenges
Unemployment is an acute problem in Bangladesh; thousands of people in our country are without any job. According to Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), 4.2 % of the country’s workforce is currently unemployed in 2016. The rate remained unchanged at 4.2% in 2017. It also does a survey that as many as 2.6 million people are still jobless despite new job creation. Unemployment Rate in Bangladesh averaged 3.85 percent from 1991 until 2017, reaching an all-time high of 5.10% in 1997 and a record low of 2.20 percent in 1991.
The unemployment rate of rural areas stand at the same percentage of 4.2, but the main problem with the data is that no concrete database of employed people at rural areas is present. As a result, many peoples’ data couldn’t not be collected or stored, increasing the inaccuracy of the data. Authorities were unable to take proper initiatives for providing proper market-driven training, guidance and supervision of the unemployed youth to the relevant modern skills.
Towards a Solution
Department of Youth Development (DYD), Bangladesh, took the initiative to solve unemployment problem in the villages. They planned to create a voluntary youth organization to prepare a database by employing part-time employees. Surveys were conveyed at the villages for identifying unemployed youths. The initiative body and local Upazilla Parishad provided the necessary resources.
After completion of the database, they matched the trade for the unemployed youth by their educational level and demand, as well as provide trainings to the youth with other organizations. Training on the Information and communication technology simultaneously with the training in the existing trade were given. Training topics include mobile servicing, fish culture, sewing and tailoring, garments, cattle fattening, electrical, poultry farming, etc. The DYD-run training programmes were aimed at making the unemployed youths self-reliant through enhancing their technical skills.
DYD also planned to create 100% self-employment by disbursing loans through them and other commercial banks, employment agencies, monetary organizations. A reward system is set to encourage self-employed youths for achieving certain level of successes. Linkage was also established to deliver the products of the unemployed youth to the market.
The new practices introduced by the Initiative:
- Survey at the rural areas for identifying unemployed youths.
- A database for unemployed youths.
- Introduction to need based skill development training.
- Helping the youths to take projects.
- Loan facilities for self-employment.
The results of the initiative was absolute. The training programs and loan disbursement facilities resulted in 100% of the rural youths have become self-reliant and are engaged in work by the new practices that they obtained through training. Mobile servicing shops, dairy farms, fisheries, tailors etc. are established and managed by the unemployed youths. The loans given out in purpose of the establishment have seen a 100% in loan return rates which further supports the outcome of the initiative.
The elimination of unemployment will indirectly help the people to eliminate poverty in Bangladesh. A self-reliant population further supports a nation to achieve sustainable development goals. Countries aiming to eradicate unemployment in the rural areas must push and support for the development of similar practices until the rural areas become self-reliant.
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