For the 2024 budget year, 600 struggling urban youths are being trained for a month in paving stones production and laying techniques in the councils of Yabassi, Njombe Penja, Mbandjock, Nkoteng, Njimom and Massangam.

The training sessions were launched on 5 August and will end on 2 September 2024. The said training is subdivided into 3 lots, as follows: Lot 1: Massangam and Njimom, 100 youths per Council; Lot 2: Njombé Penja and YABASSI, 100 youths per Council and finally Lot 3: Mbandjock and Nkoteng, 100 youths per Council. A practical case will be carried out on a training work site.

In the same vein, Bangangté Urban Youths Empowerment Center (CIJ) has been engaged since February 2024 in supporting self-integration and the provision of paid jobs. Among other things, the young entrepreneurs trained are equipped on the new avenues of wealth creation (recycling of plastics into paving stones, agriculture and livestock), support in the search for funding (setting up projects and referral to Government programs, banks, micro finance and elites) participation in entrepreneurship competitions, organization of awakening fairs, etc. Specifically with regard to the recycling of plastic in paving stones, the centre brought together young people around a collection and transformation project, in partnership with the Divisional Delegation of the Environment. Currently, 15 youths are mobilized in a production unit that transforms plastic into paving stones every Thursday. While helping to preserve the environment, these young people produce extremely strong paving stones and actively seek markets to create wealth. Regarding support for project funding, the youth groups of the centre are currently participating in an entrepreneurship challenge organized by the Ministry of Youth Affairs (Minjec) and the World Bank, with the effect of financing the best joint projects. These training courses are based on the “Cities for All” programme, which develops innovations in favor of an inclusive urban future, by matching the demand for employment through practical, short-term training for the benefit of struggling young urban dwellers in the urban sector. This helps a category of vulnerable youths to meet the requirements of the market economy which requires applicants to have prior knowledge. This training also aims to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular Goal 11.