The authors lay out key priorities to promote youth employment in Ghana .
The Youth Employment Agency since 2017 still date,has engaged a total of 144,521 youths, Mr Bright Wireko-Brobbey, the Deputy Minister of Employment and Labour Relations has informed parliaments. The breakdown includes community protection programme 17,500, Arabic instructors Module 3,000, youth in sports Programme 1,988, youth in Sanitation programme 45,000, Graduates internship programme 150, Regional Flagship programme 300, school support programme 7,730and YEA job center 1,012.
The rest are youth in Elite sports 1,00. youth in Afforestation 60,000, Entrepreneurship Training 5,000, Agricultural Extension officers 1,200. M & E Evaluation Assistants 558 and Project Assistant 83.
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Me. Wireko-Brobbey made the disclosure on one Friday, on the floor of parliament in his response question by Mr Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed, members of parliament (MP) for Tamale central. The MP asked the Deputy Minister three number of people the YEA had engaged under the programme since 2017.
The Deputy Minister said the Youth Employment program established by the Youth Employment Agents Act 2015 (Act 887) was an intervention programme aimed at providing Ghanaian youth with employment opportunities. He said the primary objective of the Agency was to develop, coordinated, supervise and facilitate the creation of jobs for the youth