Chairperson, yes, there is a focus on monitoring and evaluation. We are focussing our attention on what needs to be done for young people, particularly in terms of getting them to be players in the economy. We accepted that we are facing a crisis where many of the young people in our country are unemployed and we therefore need to do something. We have decided that we are going to come up with a number of initiatives and measures to bring more and more young people into the world of work. We are therefore, in the Presidency, working on a number of measures, some of which will be implemented soon and in no time.
When it comes to the empowerment of women, we have said that we want women to be properly empowered and every programme that we embark upon should have the women empowerment element, not forgetting people with disabilities.
So, all this is being focused on and the monitoring and evaluation will be focussing on making sure that we do take positive actions in all these matters because we should not carry on, knowing very well that we have a major problem around these three. People with disabilities need jobs; they need to be properly economically empowered.
The Department of Women, Youth and People with Disabilities is focussing on that. We also want it to be a much broader societal responsibility. It should not only be balkanised in that Ministry; it should be something that all of society, various institution focus on.
We would like to see people with disabilities being employed and we are not seeing that happening. I am calling on companies in the private sector as well as the public sector to employ people with disabilities because they need that economic empowerment as well.
Similarly, the empowerment of women should be much broader than just being the responsibility of the Department of Women, Youth and People with Disabilities. When it comes to the youth, we are embarking on a number of programmes. The National Youth Development Agency is doing phenomenal work and they need to be supported
because they have proven that they can reach out to young people, that they can come up with innovative programmes for young people and they have a good outreach process that impacts thousands and thousands of young people. So, all these matters are being addressed and looked at on a continuous basis. Thank you very much. [Applause.]