John Jal Dak Ruot ,
Please provide us with your views on the state of youth (un)employment in your country, and how it affects your country's state of peace
How does your work and/or activism promote youth employment and/or sustainable peace?
We train the youth in conflict resolution and help them act as peace Ambassadors. We were among the Civil Society Organizations that were responsible for drafting the Youth Development Policy for South Sudan Government, the purpose of which was to adopt and sign into law support and funding for youth initiatives. We support youth by training them with livelihood skills and entrepreneurship knowledge to run start ups and initiatives. We advocate for refugee youth employment in Uganda. Here there is a 70%- 30% policy for refugees and hosts respectively. We offered volunteering work for over 30 young people to perfect their skills and gradually learn skills that support their life skills. We currently support 5 enterprises that have 30 people each with grants of 2 million each by offering them free training skills.