YOUTH PROSPER THROUGH NYEP Gambaga August 18, 2008
An amount of GH c42000 was disbursed in 2006 to the National Youth Employment Programme, NYEP secretariat in the East Mamprusi district for the payment of allowances to the programme’s beneficiaries. The ministry of youth and employment during the first half of the year contracted some selected banks nationwide which now handle the payments of the NYEP employees with dispatch.
The East Mamprusi district coordinator of the NYEP, Mr. Seidu Salifu disclosed this to the Information Services Department in an interview at Gambaga in the Northern region. According to Mr. Salifu, the NYEP started in the district in 2006 with only three modules including agribusiness, community teaching assistant and sanitation and waste management modules.
At present, the NYEP has five operational modules in the district with the addition of the health extension assistants’ module and the paid internship module. Mr.Salifu disclosed that 250 farmers were engaged under the agribusiness module of the programme between October 2006 and 2007. These farmers were given farm inputs including five bags each of chemical fertilizer and additional GH c50 to high mechanical ploughs for their farms.
He said the community teaching assistant’s module also engaged 200 recruit teachers mainly for the basic schools. Out of the number, 83 were females. Meanwhile, 35 sanitary plus one supervisor have been employed under the sanitation and waste management module. This he noted was done in collaboration with Zoom Lion Ghana Limited, a waste management company.
In 2007, a total of 76 youths were recruited into the health assistants’ module. After going through six months of intensive training, they were deployed to health facilities in the district. Mr. Salifu further said currently, over 26 beneficiaries of the NYEP are placed with decentralized departments under the paid internship module majority of them, working with the youth leadership training institute at Nalerigu.
The NYEP coordinator noted that the programme faces a lot of setbacks including irregular payments of allowances and lack of office logistics for administrative work of the secretariat and hoped government would do something drastic about the situation. He called for more funding to the NYEP so that all the 10 modules would become operational in the district in order for more youth to be employed under the programme. He said government should regularize the appointments of NYEP employees and put them on the accountant general’s payroll so as to improve their financial status.
Mr. Salifu remarked that on the whole, government has succeeded in creating more jobs for the youth through the NYEP making some of them the bread winners of their families. He said some youths also used proceeds from the programme to continue their education to higher levels.
The East Mamprusi district coordinator of the NYEP, Mr. Seidu Salifu disclosed this to the Information Services Department in an interview at Gambaga in the Northern region. According to Mr. Salifu, the NYEP started in the district in 2006 with only three modules including agribusiness, community teaching assistant and sanitation and waste management modules.
At present, the NYEP has five operational modules in the district with the addition of the health extension assistants’ module and the paid internship module. Mr.Salifu disclosed that 250 farmers were engaged under the agribusiness module of the programme between October 2006 and 2007. These farmers were given farm inputs including five bags each of chemical fertilizer and additional GH c50 to high mechanical ploughs for their farms.
He said the community teaching assistant’s module also engaged 200 recruit teachers mainly for the basic schools. Out of the number, 83 were females. Meanwhile, 35 sanitary plus one supervisor have been employed under the sanitation and waste management module. This he noted was done in collaboration with Zoom Lion Ghana Limited, a waste management company.
In 2007, a total of 76 youths were recruited into the health assistants’ module. After going through six months of intensive training, they were deployed to health facilities in the district. Mr. Salifu further said currently, over 26 beneficiaries of the NYEP are placed with decentralized departments under the paid internship module majority of them, working with the youth leadership training institute at Nalerigu.
The NYEP coordinator noted that the programme faces a lot of setbacks including irregular payments of allowances and lack of office logistics for administrative work of the secretariat and hoped government would do something drastic about the situation. He called for more funding to the NYEP so that all the 10 modules would become operational in the district in order for more youth to be employed under the programme. He said government should regularize the appointments of NYEP employees and put them on the accountant general’s payroll so as to improve their financial status.
Mr. Salifu remarked that on the whole, government has succeeded in creating more jobs for the youth through the NYEP making some of them the bread winners of their families. He said some youths also used proceeds from the programme to continue their education to higher levels.
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