MOBILIZING THE YOUTH FOR SELF - RELIANCE: AN ASSESSMENT OF SELF - HELP INITIATIVES: A CASE STUDY OF SURU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA FROM 2011 - 2015

Abstract

Self reliance in a general sense is what actually promotes productivity and other economic activities which obviously lead to the development of a country. From time immemorial people have always engaged in different activities such as farming, fishi ng, hunting, among others, in o rder to satisfy their basic needs and enhance their social mobility from one class to another. Therefore, the idea of self - reliance lays heavily on youth empowerment by training of mind and body of the youth for proper inter gration in to the society and for positive development. Umar Dantani states that, “the Nigerian government in collaboration with private organizations should intensify effort to provide gainful employment to the army of unemployment youth, this can be done through the establishment of micro-finance schemes that assist the youth to be self employed, if this is achieve, redundancy among the youth would be reduced to the bearest minimum”