A one-day sensitisation forum on the Ghana Jobs and Skills Project targeted to support skills development and job creation in Ghana especially for the youth has been organized in Damongo in the Savanna Region on Tuesday 11th October, 2022.
Addressing over 500 participants of the forum, the Savannah Regional Minister, Mr Saeed Muhazu Jibril expressed his “sincerest pleasure to be part of the important forum” and stated that unemployment and underemployment remain the two main global development challenges, with the World Bank estimating that about 200 million youth are unemployed worldwide requiring a total of 600 million jobs over the next 15 years to maintain global employment rates.
He indicated that it was projected in Ghana in 2016 that due to the country’s growing youth population, 300,000 new jobs were to be created each year to absorb the increasing number of unemployed young people.
The Savannah Regional Minister said; “As some of you might recall; unemployment and
underemployment were part of the main developmental challenges that Ghana was confronted with when the NPP took over power on 7th January, 2022 and there was therefore an urgent need to look for creative ways of solving this huge problem”.
The Minister further said, an attempt to address the challenges of unemployment and underemployment was at that time demoralizing and destroying the youth of this country but the NPP government under the leadership of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo came out with a number of policies and projects aimed at addressing the unemployment gap”.
The Savannah Regional Director of the Ghana Enterprises Agency Mr Alidu Ewura in an interview with the media said the sensitization forum is meant to address and provide privileges to unemployed persons especially the youth in the region. He said the project is an initiative by the NPP government in partnership with World Bank which seeks to alleviate poverty whiles creating jobs each year to absorb the increasing number of unemployed young men and women in the country which the Savannah Region is not left out.
“This Project will open new chapters in the lives of participants towards being productive and self-reliant citizens of the country and used the opportunity to urge all participants and stakeholders to take the program with all the seriousness it requires since it is very beneficial to ending poverty in the country”; he said.
According to Mr Alidu, one can benefit from the project through registration online, the regional office of the Ghana Jobs and Skills located in Damongo and all districts and Municipal assemblys in Ghana.
Mr Ewura added that a lot of capital has been earmarked to be distributed to various entrepreneurs who applies for the program with applicants going through a training program at the various centers.
Present at the forum were the Representative of the Executive Director of Ghana Enterprises Agency Mr Alidu Ewura, the
Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for West Mr. Musah Kusubari, the Savannah Regional Coordinating Director, Heads Of Department, Youth Groups and Business Associations.
Source: nkilgifmonline.com
