THE CAUSES OF EDUCATED YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT AND THE LIVES OF YOUTH IN SNNPR, GEDEO ZONE THE CASE OF DILLA TOWN

Abstract The unemployed is numbers of the economically active population who are without work but available for and seeking work including people who have lost their jobs and those who have voluntarily left work This paper is entitled to examine the causes of educated youth unemployment and the life of youths in Dilla townThe source of the data the researchers were used in this study is both primary and secondary source. The study also used in-depth interviews, focus group discussion and direct field observation with a sample size of 20 educated youth unemployed and a total of 12 key informants’in Dilla town administration. Finally based on the result of the finding this research was recommended that the government and the town administration should have to progress the economy and create adequate jobs by attracting labor intensive foreign investment that can create more jobs for educated youths, the government should work for developing good governance, to reduce the skill mismatch problem, action should be taken in enhancing the responsiveness of education institution to the labor market demands by strengthening the linkage between education institutions and the labor market, Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) should have consider and participate educated youth especially lower level trained youth in facilitating and creating at least similar jobs with their profession and action should be taken in enhancing the entrepreneurship skill of the student by giving entrepreneurship as one subject in all educational institution and, arrange credit facilities for educated unemployed to create their own business.