the United Nations defines youth as all individualsaged between 15 and 24(Bennell, 2007).Thereare 1.2 billion youth between the ages of 15 and 24years that make up 18% of the world’s population. Ofthese, about 87% of these young people live indeveloping countries. For example, Africa alone hassome 200 million youth. Ethiopia has the largest youthpopulation in Sub-Saharan Africa. More than half of itspopulation is under the age of 25 and 20% are between15 and 24 (Nebil, Gezahegn and Hayat, 2010). The problem of youth unemploymentparticularly in urban areas has been a persistentconcern of politicians and policymakers since the1960s. Nonetheless, youth development has remainedat the margins of national development strategies inmost countries though there exists some growinginterest towards the youth. And still youth are sufferingfrom many untold problemsemanating fromunemployment which many called it ‘youth crisis’(Bennell, 2007). These authors added that the numberof unemployed youth world-wide has reached 88 millionand the number of young people looking for work inSub-Saharan Africa is expected to increase by 28% inthe next15 years – an additional 30 million people joiningthe pool of job seekers. In Burundi, Ethiopia, Nigeriaand Uganda, youth poverty exceeds 80%, whereas it ismuch lower in Ghana (Gyimah-Brempong and Kimeny,2013). In Ethiopia, in 2005, youth (15-24 years old)recorded a 7.8% unemployment rate, higher than anyother age group (Nebil, Gezahegn and Hayat, 2010).