Major Job Creation Project Launched

Thursday January 20, 2011

By Edmund Mingle
A job creation project aimed at generating a thousand viable micro ventures this year has been launched in Accra.

The project, which is an intiative under the Youth Enterprises and Skills Development Centre (YESDEC) of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP), focuses on creating jobs in agro-processing, manufacturing, services, catering and environmental sanitation management sectors.

It is part of efforts by the government to creating sustainable jobs for the unemployed youth in the country.

Among other things, the project would provide essential training and logistics to enable the beneficiaries to engage in service provision in the various target areas.

For starters, the project will set up 1000 youths in sustainable micro businesses through short training modules and the provision of simple equipment to facilitate their operation.

Madam Akua Sena Dansua, outgoing Minister for Youth and Sports, launching the project said the project was in line with the NYEP’s strategy for 2010-2013 aimed at creating direct employment for over 750,000 youths through targeted employment modules.

The employment modules, she said was aimed at developing the capacity of the youth to engage in multiple business ventures that could create more jobs for others.

She lauded the objective of the project and urged all the partners to collaborate effectively to ensure a successful implementation of the project.

Abuga Pele, National Coordinator of the NYEP, for his part, said the over 40,000 youths are expected to establish micro direct ventures in the long run.

He called on financial institutions to support the implementation of the project since the project would also be beneficial to them.END