{"id":13279,"date":"2026-06-20T12:26:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/cameroon-launches-the-enable-youth-program\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T21:39:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:39:50","slug":"cameroon-launches-the-enable-youth-program","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/cameroon-launches-the-enable-youth-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon launches the ENABLE Youth Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taking the lead in Central Africa, the Cameroon government launched the ENABLE Youth Program on 24 April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The program, which was launched at Yaound\u00e9, was attended by the country\u2019s Minister of Agriculture, Henri Eyebe Ayissi, accompanied by other top government officials  and representatives of the African Development Bank (<a title=\"The African Development Bank website\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afdb.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BAD<\/a>)  and IITA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><figure id=\"attachment_12775\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12775\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1024_picture-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12775\" src=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1024_picture-1-300x200-1.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of Tola, a youth Agripreneur, explaining the IYA program to the Minister of Agriculture, H.E Henri Eyebe Ayissi\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tola, a youth Agripreneur, explaining the IYA program to the Minister of Agriculture, H.E Henri Eyebe Ayissi<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking during the launching, Ayissi noted that the ENABLE Youth Program is part of the country\u2019s efforts to ensure that every youth is provided an opportunity to earn a decent living through agriculture. He expressed satisfaction that IITA is partnering with the government in the nationwide implementation of the program. He also appreciated the AfDB for its support to the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Deputy Director General for Special Duties, <a title=\"Visit Kwame Akuffo-Akoto profile page\" href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/iita-staff\/akuffo-akoto-kwame\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kwame Akuffo-Akoto<\/a>, representing IITA, stressed that the Institute, through the <a title=\"IITA Youth Agripreneurs website\" href=\"http:\/\/youthagripreneurs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jeunes agripreneurs de l'IITA<\/a> (IYA) model, has realized that with institutional support, training, financing,  and mentoring, youth can be productively engaged in agriculture. He added that the Institute would introduce the concept used in attaining the success recorded with the IYA into the ENABLE Youth Cameroon Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><figure id=\"attachment_12776\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12776\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1024_picture-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12776\" src=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1024_picture-2-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of Kwame Akuffo-Akoto (rightmost), DDG Special Duties, with top Cameroon government officials during the launch.\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kwame Akuffo-Akoto (rightmost), DDG Special Duties, with top Cameroon government officials during the launch.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The AfDB representative, Racine Kane, explained that the idea behind the introduction of ENABLE Youth was to increase food production  and job creation among youth. He said the agricultural sector is vast enough to accommodate the many unemployed African youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ENABLE Youth program in Cameroon is a component of the Agriculture Value Chain Development Program (PD-CVA) under the Ministry of Agriculture  and Rural Development (MINARD).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">IITA is expected to lead  and administer 16 Youth Agribusiness Incubation Centers (YABICs) over a period of five years  and train 1536 Agripreneurs who will launch 560 new agribusinesses  and employ about 6200 additional persons, including outgrowers. It will also organize  and carry out the capacity development of technical personnel recruited in the framework of the agripreneurial strategy to establish  and operationalize an effective monitoring  and evaluation system in all participating YABICs as well as assist the Agripreneurs in preparing their business plans  and submitting them to PD-CVA.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking the lead in Central Africa, the Cameroon government launched the ENABLE Youth Program on 24 April.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":13280,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"tags":[397],"science-area":[],"program":[],"location":[41],"news-type":[],"hub":[],"crop":[],"impact-areas":[],"item-year":[195],"class_list":["post-13279","news-item","type-news-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-enable-youthyouthyouth-agripreneurs","location-cameroon","item-year-195"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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