La Banque Mondial organized a panel discussion on Tuesday, October 17, 2023 at the headquarters of his institution as part of its campaign for the eradication of poverty, “End Poverty Day”. This discussion panel is organized according to the profile of Beninese youth

End Poverty Day is a campaign that the World Bank organizes in each country. In Benin, this day was marked by a panel discussion based on the theme “How is Benin preparing to ensure better jobs for young people?” Banque mondiale ” Kaliza Karuretwa, Senior Private Sector Specialist and Acting Resident Representative of the group, said that programs and projects are funded by the the achievement of this objective. These include the Vocational Training and Entrepreneurship for Employment project in Benin, worth 300,000,000 US dollars financé entirely by the institution, as well as the Project for the Inclusion of Young people (Prodij) whose contribution to the employment of young people with little or no education in situations of unemployment or underemployment is a step forward in the employment promotion system

According to Laurent Gangbès, Director General of the Investment and Export Promotion Agency (APIEx), “what the government is doing with the help of Technical and Financial Partners is to radically change the structure of our économie . We want to ensure that those who have diplomas, training or not can all find a job. This is why the government has launched a project to industrialize our country, because for it, we cannot develop if we do not set up, at home, an industry capable of transforming everything we produce