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(Ecofin Agency) - The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Senegalese Vocational and Technical Training Fund (3FTP) have reached a cooperation agreement in which the UN organization will support and aid the Senegalese government in its efforts to rapidly promote employment and employability of young men and women in the agricultural sector.
The deal is part of the MIJA project (Program to accelerate the insertion model for young agripreneurs), which promotes agricultural entrepreneurship in the country; 15,840 young Senegalese will receive training in sectors such as poultry farming, horticulture, fish farming, and livestock. The implementation of this partnership will allow us to train and integrate more than 15,000 young women and men, and to put in place initiatives [.] to ensure the sustainability of the jobs that will be created, said Gouantoueu Robert Guei, FAO representative in Senegal.