Deputy Speaker, in its report, the NYDA continues to express the view that, given the minimum resources it has, it is not able to spread itself throughout the country. The NYDA is partnering with municipalities to ensure that it establishes offices in municipalities. It has not been able to go to that level because of resources.
However, departments, state entities and other institutions have been encouraged, on their own, to include in their programmes youth development programmes which will contribute towards dealing with youth problems in the country. We have been calling on everybody in society, both the private sector and the public sector, to ensure that they have programmes which are not dependent on the NYDA alone, but programmes which they have to champion, to ensure that it happens. We hope that during the Budget Vote debates, Ministries, departments and institutions will elaborate on their programmes which include youth development and empowerment, so that all of us contribute towards dealing with the scourge of problems that our youth is facing in the country.