 185,000 women, youths and other vulnerable members of the society in stop gap employment services in their communities. Thirty (30 per cent) and twenty (20 per cent) per cents of beneficiary slots were reserved for women and other vulnerable groups respectively. Distribution of beneficiaries of the programme by sex as at 2013 is presented in Figure XX. The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) initiated and is implementing programmes to combat mass unemployment amongst women and youths. In 2011, 182,797 women and youth were employed through the programme, of this number 75,301 (41.19 per cent) were women and 107,496 (58.81 per cent) were men. The distribution by gender of employment by the NDE programme is presented in Table 8.9. Table 8.9 Summary of NDE Beneficiaries by Scheme and sex, January-December, 2011 Source: NDE Annual Report, 2011. 165