National Council MP Emma Muteka has stressed the importance of continuing to train and provide learners with the necessary skills relevant for job creation starting from a young age. 
 
Muteka said this during her contribution to a report from the Committee on Education, Science, ICT, and Youth Development on an oversight visit to youth projects in six regions.

Muteka proposed the implementation of entrepreneurship mentorship programmes in all schools to inspire young learners.

She stressed that vocational training centre graduates should be job creators for themselves and peers, adding this is not the case, as the majority of them do not possess the necessary skills even after graduation.

"I am aware and take cognisance that we do have a module of entrepreneurship that is in our high schools. However, I don't think that it should be an overselected few. It should be something that should be cross-board and compulsory for each learner."

Muteka also encouraged the committee to engage with young people as key stakeholders to understand their needs and challenges.

Swapo Party MP Alfeus Abraham agreed with the notion of providing schoolchildren with vocational or entrepreneurial skills.

"That's why it's needed to be implemented from lower primary to upper primary to secondary, so that at the end of the day, when our learners leave at the senior secondary, they have something they can do with their hands, which is part and parcel of them creating jobs for themselves and employing the others."

The vice chairperson of the Committee on Education, Science, ICT, and Youth Development, Bethuel Tjaveondja, explained that "our assignment or our report then was more of an investigative approach. Not that we initiated, and then we were planning with the ministry for how they should initiate because this is now a mandate from different ministries, to be specific."