Youth Development

As a result of the civil war which ravaged the country during the late 1980s and early 1990s, the majority of the population have lost their economic assets, including homes, lands, farms and jobs, and went into exile or become internally displaced after the war, many people returned again to their place of origin and tried to restart their lives from the scratch with empty hands. Consequentially, the immediate causes of the high rate of unemployment has exacerbated not only by the mere existence of large number of disadvantaged people and loss of government economics structures but also limited availability of people with employable skills and basic education. There is a tremendous need to provide opportunities to a large number of disadvantaged and out-of-school youth in Somaliland

Promotion job opportunities through skills training (PETT)

The Promotion of job opportunities through skills training (PETT) is to provide and access skills trainings for the children and youth in Berbera to enable them a way of securing jobs. The main goal of the two projects is increased employment opportunities and improved livelihood through vocational skills training among Most Vulnerable Individuals in Berbera, Sahil region. The project targeted beneficiaries include street children, Internally Displaced Individuals (IDPs), children from poor families, ex-militias and returnees from refugee asylums and women.

Youth multi-purpose development center (YMDC)

Berbera YMDC (youth multi-purpose development center) approach that was initiated by GAVO is a participatory bottom up, capacity oriented process that positions information resource center as building block for youth development movement. The methodology focuses on the building youth and community information resources that matter to the youth people in Berbera and on the creation and nurturing of community structures around it by aligning information and recreational services, reading, learning and playing with development the approach aims to:

Increase the use of new information and knowledge to help youth to manage changes, to improve their skills and thinking and to learn better health practices to protect themselves and their families
Bring out the capacities of the youth community, and their deep and rich knowledge that was marginalized by chat chewing, clan divisions and other discouragements.