Program Priorities
To deliver on it’s mandate, the Ministry is guided by the following priorities:
21 February 2024
Youth Development
Promoting our youth by ensuring equitable participation, sustainable development and empowerment for all Zimbabwean citizens.
National Youth Service
Facilitating placement of Youth Service in Zimbabwe graduates for employment in Government, Parastatals, and other organisations, as well as enrolment in higher and tertiary education institutions.
Vocational Training and Skills Development
Equipping youth with technical, vocational and entrepreneurial skills for employment creation and self-sustenance.
Our Principals
Youth Development Programs
The goals of youth development programs is promote positive development, even when seeking to prevent problem behaviors. Youth development programs help youth navigate adolescence in healthy ways and prepare them for their future by fostering their positive development.
Ministry Core Values
Patriotism
Desire or love for one’s country.(Zimbabwe first)
Accountability
State of being transparent, accountable, responsible, answerable for one’s and our collective actions
Teamwork
Leveraging on each other’s experiences and strengths and working inclusively with love and respect
Innovation
Initiating and embracing new methods or ideas of enhancing service delivery timeously.
Integrity
Honesty, trustworthy, steadfast and adherence to moral and professional principles
News
THE FIGHT IS ON: DRUG AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN ZIMBABWE
As the drug and substance abuse scourge continues to ravage the world at a worrying pace, Zimbabwe has not been spared. Drug and substance abuse has recently become widespread and a daring menace, resulting in many researches labeling it as a pandemic. In Zimbabwe, a huge number of people who abuse drugs and substances fall within the youth bracket of 15 to 35 years.
PRESIDENT E.D MNANGAGWA COMMISSIONED EMPOWERMENT PROJECTS AT MAGAMBA VTC
President Emmerson Mnangagwa commissioned empowerment projects at Magamba Vocational Training Centre on the 7th of November 2024 in Mutare during the Youth Empowerment Forum, which ran under the theme:” Accelerating Youth Empowerment for Sustainable Development: Unleashing Youth Potential in Entrepreneurship”.
SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THROUGH YOUTH HUBS
The notion of Youth Business Hubs is a global trend seeking or focusing on factors such as education, entrepreneurship, social innovation and community duty which is in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).The ministry established youth hubs around the country to prepare young people and the community to become self sustaining, productive and economically viable citizens. .
