NYEP Bill To Go To Parliament

Friday March 12, 2010
By Kafui Gati

The National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) is to be re-organised to create a continuous avenue for youth employment in the country

To this end a bill would soon be placed in parliament known as the NYEP Bill to give real meaning to youth employment in Ghana.

Mr. Abuga Pele, National Coordinator of NYEP said this in Accra on Wednesday when he addressed the press on some of the challenges facing the programme.

He said, the programme has so far registered nearly one million youth, with many more clamoring to register.

The NYEP has therefore developed and is implementing exit plans in collaboration with the relevant ministries and agencies to enable the exit of the current and potential beneficiaries to be properly structured.

“The ext plan,” he noted “is for those who gained placements and have been in the programme for a two year-term to exit to create a continuous avenue for others to gain employment.”

Such people, he said, who had not been absorbed under any job avenue would be given priority under the trades and vocation module of the NYEP.

Mr. Pele said, “because of the 13,000 health assistants under the Health Extension module, the country no longer totters under the weight of nursing flight abroad,” adding that “They have also helped to save lives and prevent total collapse of some of these health institutions.”

He said the police authorities would have been over stretched without the support offered by the Community Protection Assistants of the NYEP.

Such significant contributions ran throughout the modules, adding “one does not need to re-state the sterling contributions of interns in the organisations they serve.”

He said a comprehensive exit plan had been developed for the first batch of the beneficiaries assuming that it would be implemented starting from March, this year.

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