protests quickly spread to other European countries including Spain and Greece and later as the Occupy Wall Street movement in the USA. Youth unemployment has been cited as the major cause of the 2011 unrests in the Middle East, Spain and Greece and as the fundamental force behind the Occupy Wall Street movement (International Labor Organization, 2012b). There are about 1,2 billion young people in the world today and 85% of them live in the developing world (International Labor Organization, 2012a). The youth population of Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to grow into the foreseeable future and the youth bulge will result in increased unrests and conflicts in the absence of decent livelihoods (International Labor Organization, 2012a). The 2012
