Nigeria - Enable Youth Project

The ENABLE Youth Nigeria programme is a programmatic investment program funded through ADB loan of UA 179.32 million and AGTF Loan of UA 21.52 million. Overall, the programme will equip youth with various skills, values, attitudes, and orientation that will impact on their lives, the lives of others and the society in general. The project will make agriculture business attractive and provide decent employment to the youth. The programme will also influence institutional changes in terms of access to finance particularly for youth. Key impacts of the project are the real agricultural GDP growth from the present 3.09% to at least 7% per year and reduce youth unemployed by 10% by 2021 from the present 21.50%. Expected outcomes of the ENABLE Youth Program are: i) increase youth income by 40%, ii) generate 185,000 additional jobs, iii) and increase access to finance by 8%.