According to Gorete Leitão, consultant to the Ministry of Public Administration, Labor and Social Security, the creation of professional internships is one of the purposes of PAPE, whose new implementation strategy was approved last August.
The responsible, who was speaking this Wednesday in Luanda, representing the Secretary of State for Labour and Social Security, reported that PAPE plans to support 52,000 entrepreneurs until 2022 and formalize 30,000 actors of the informal sector.
Gorete Leitão presented the opportunities for young entrepreneurs in the framework of the implementation of PAPE, during a "Meeting with Young Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurs", which addressed sectoral initiatives to support entrepreneurship and youth.
The objectives of PAPE are to encourage entrepreneurship among young people, "in the technical-professional and small business management fields, and to contribute to the process of promoting financial, fiscal and social inclusion of youth".
The government technician underlined that this program, launched in April by the President, João Lourenço, also has as a goal the professional training of 60.000 young people in the framework of the promotion and promotion of employability.
"We will also rebuild and rehabilitate some professional centers in the country that are not in conditions", he pointed out.
The General State Budget and the Petroleum Fund are some sources of PAPE funding.
The Secretary of State for Youth, Fernando Francisco João, said at the opening of the meeting that the State "has been firmly betting" on the promotion of youth entrepreneurship as viable mechanisms for "improving youth employment levels.
"As demonstrated by the various programs created with the aim of involving young people in solving their economic and social problems through the creation of new business concepts, new ideas and exploitation of the potential that the country has," he said.
Angola continues to register a high rate of unemployment that affects mainly young people, who in recent times promote demonstrations demanding more employment and better living conditions.
Besides the economic, financial and exchange crisis that the country has been experiencing since the end of 2014, as a result of the drop in the price of oil on the international market, the situation, according to the authorities, has also been aggravated by the covid-19 pandemic.
In the election campaign for the 2017 elections, the candidate João Lourenço, the current president, promised to create 500,000 new jobs by the end of the legislature in 2022.
The meeting was promoted by the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
