Q.2.1 Unemployment between the ages of 15 and 24 has reached a staggering 71 million (ILO, 2016). Solution fluency is a guided problem solving framework that consists of six D’s. Use the solution fluency process to solve unemployment problems in your area. Provide a brief background of your area and how you intend to tackle this problem.

I live in Fish Hoek, a small valley that has many schools and young people. But we also have two informal settlements in the area, this means there is lots of unemployment in our area, many young people are on the street and homeless people begging on the street.

Define: By defining the smaller problem that causes the big problem is important, one needs to make sure of the exact problems, then write a hypothesis and plan where to go after that.

Unemployment of people in Fish Hoek, is caused by the large amount of people especially unskilled youth that come from the informal settlements, there is also not enough job opportunities for the amount of people, as it’s a small area yet has so many people.

Discover: One needs to understand and explore how this problem evolved, what happened in the past and what could have been different.

Problems in the area go back to apartheid, as many problems in South Africa. After apartheid the government allowed for informal settlements to develop, they did not do enough to educate the “less fortunate” and therefore proper communities were not formed. Now there are too many people in one place living on top of each other, many uneducated and unemployed. The government should have made more efforts to educate people, to give them better housing and not allowing for informal settlements to grow at such a rapid rate. More jobs should have been created and skills should have been taught to those who are working.

Dream: Now imagine the solutions, think forward for a better future. The possible and impossible are evaluated. Time to be creative.

Workshops are a good start to educate and teach skills to those in need of a better future. The government should support their schools and it’s families more, BUT they can’t only support them without the citizens taking responsibility themselves. More jobs can be created that have value to the community too, like clean-up projects or building of structures.

Design: Now the solution must be made a reality, involving gap-analysis and setting out the steps to get to the final result.

Funding should be provided by the government and private sector who want to see change. This will able to creation of workshops, helping programmes, and small job creation.

Deliver: The design needs to be produced and published. Having fund raising from local schools who created plays or art on auction. Having experiments and people take part. Locals give ideas to help out the community. And then finally this is all presented to the outside and the money is made.

Debrief: Evaluating all the previous steps. Was the problem correctly defined, enough information found? Was there a possible, suitable solutions and then a good final presentation. This is all part of the future problem solving.