Human Resource Development for Sustainable Development: Perspective for Youth Empowerment in Nigeria

Abstract

This paper addresses the issue of human resource development for sustainable development: perspective for youth empowerment in Nigeria. It states that Nigerian youth empowerment and development is pivotal to economic growth and national development. Developing countries like Nigerian that desires to develop coupled with cooperation of her citizens commit a sizeable proportion of resources to empowering and developing the citizens most especially the youth if developmental objectives must be attained. It also examines the conceptual analysis of development and challenges of youth empowerment within the context of the Nigerian environment. The paper concluded that if Nigeria must join the league of developed nations by 2020 as projected by the world bark in recent years, it must pursue youth empowerment and development programmes aggressively, ensure constant power supply and human capital development (skills acquisition) while the entrepreneurial developmental studies should be introduced at all levels of our educational sector in order to enable youth be responsible and become managers of their own development rather than searching for the not-available white collar jobs.
Keywords: Development, Empowerment, Youth, Youth Empowerment, Youth Development.