Parliament has been urged to legalize the operation of the National Youth Employment Programme as given to the National Health Insurance Scheme.
The Deputy National Coordinator of Monitoring and Evaluation of the programme, Kwesi Holison, disclosed this to journalists in the region. He added that the programme has been bedeviled with financial challenges, saying unlike the National Health Insurance Scheme that is heavily supported by 21/2 vat tax element. He said it is due to the prerogative of the president that the programme is exiting and if the president decides to abolish it he cannot be taken to court.
The National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) conference taking place at the Central Region Coordinating Council, gave an insight on the increase of youth employability in the Central Region as well as the country’s overall figures.Central Region has recorded a 55 per cent rise in youth employment with an increase of 4500 beneficiaries two years after recording over the 3,400 beneficiaries in 2009.
With this programme, Ghana’s youth was given a unique chance to make a difference in today’s busy job market and due to the continuing recruiting. Youth nowadays can be found in either a six-month or two-year training in bamboo craft, maintenance and repairs, mining, community police and teaching assistance.
With employees on paid programmes such as internships tackling all fields of interest, 16 modules were intoroduced throughout the 17 districts of the Central Region, whose range vary from Dressmaking, Youth in Film Industry, Bamboo Craft to Community Education Teaching Assistance.
Many beneficiaries in a variety of fields such as community education training, health, prison service and hairdressing were registered as of 2011, according to Nana Osiebi Quansah, NYEP’s Regional Coordinator of the Central Region.
Even though the six-months length was questioned by further journalists at the press conference, Mr Kwesi Holison, Deputy National Coordinator of Monitoring and Evaluation and guest speaker of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP), assured that the intensity of the programme is well-organised for any particular work placement and that the skills were achieved when the participant is willing to learn. If in any case the participants require additional training, more courses at the same length will be provided. “We are doing everything possible to ensure a fair play,” Mr Holison added.
The lack of security for youth in today’s work environment has led the programme to further investments towards school education and work training. From 2009, the figures vary between a total rise of five to more than 100 per cent throughout all areas including a re-engagement of interns.
National Youth Employment Programme provides high-standard opportunities of recruitment and availability of space in a time where experienced practical training is required for most work placements.
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