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Background

BACKGROUNDThe National Youth Employment Programme in Ghana was conceived in 2005 to address the ever increasing problem of unemployment among the youth, perceived to be potential threat to National Security.

The programme was officially launched in October 2006 to facilitate job creation and placement for the youth in various economic ventures in all districts across the nation.

OVERALL OBJECTIVETo empower the Youth to contribute meaningfully to the socio economic and sustainable development of the nation.

Specific Objectives•To identify and create jobs that are economic viable for the youth•To check rural –urban drift by providing jobs in districts nationwide•To create opportunities for self employment ventures • To inculcate in the youth a sense of self discipline, good morals, a sense of patriotism

EMPLOYMENT TARGET• Created 108,000 jobs between June 2006 to Dec. 2008.• Created 100,00 jobs between 2010 to 2011• To create 500,000 Jobs in 3 three years ( 2006-2012)

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NYEP Implementation Structure

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MINISTER

National Coordinator

NYEP BOARD

DNC Administration

197 District Employment Coordinators/Offices

DNC HRD DNC – Ops DNC – Finance

National Monitoring Team

District Boards (Delta Force)

10 Regional Coordinators

* DNC- Deputy National Coordinator

DNC Comm. & Research

Asst. DNC Asst. DNCAsst. DNC Asst. DNC Asst. DNC

NYEP Features

THE STRUCTURE• It is a Programme and not Mainstream

Civil Service

• Stop Gap Measure that prepares youth for permanent employment

• Inter –Ministerial

• Decentralised Implementation Structures

• Funded 100% by Government of Ghana

• Employment Modules have dedicated statutory funding sources

• Public –Private Partnership is encouraged

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THE JOBS • Jobs created are demand related

• Temporary Jobs ( Max. 2 years as in paid Employment Modules)

• Beneficiaries are recruited from and placed within their Districts & Communities

• Beneficiaries are paid allowances and not salaries

• Allowances are lower than the market rates

• Exit plan cut out for the beneficiaries to leave the programme into mainstream and permanent employment

CURRENT MODULES

NYEP is being implemented through employment modules namely;

1. Community Protection Assistance (CPA)

2. Community Education & Teaching Assistant (CETA)

3. Health Extension Work (HEW)

4. Youth In Fire Safety & Prevention

5. Youth In Prison Support Services

6. Youth In Immigration

7. Waste & Sanitation

8. Paid Interns

9. ICT Mobile Phone Repairs

10. Dress Making & Fashion

11. Hairdressing & Beauty Care Services

12. Youth In Road Maintenance

13. Bamboo Processing

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Regional Employment Figures 2005 - 2008

REGION NO. OF YOUTH REGISTERED

ACTUAL NO. OF YOUTH EMPLOYED

%

OF YOUTH EMPLOYED

ASHANTI 48,522 11,694 24

BRONG AHAFO 30,568 10,992 36

CENTRAL 34,616 10,450 30

EASTERN 30,325 10,779 36

GT ACCRA 42,526 9,994 24

NORTHERN 41,532 11,598 28

UPPER EAST 25,521 10,188 39

UPPER WEST 26,255 9,698 37

VOLTA 27,456 12,013 42

WESTERN 25,257 10,997 44TOTAL 332,578 108,403 34

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Breakdown of Employment 2005 - 2008

6* A number of youth groups were supported with loans to either setup or grow their businesses

EMPLOYMENT MODULES BENEFICIAIRIES

AGRIC BIZ -CROP 25,383

COMM EDU TEACH 24,967

COMM. PROTECTION 3,047

HEALTH EXTENSION WORKERS 13,913

WASTE AND S'TION (ZOOMLION) 9,100

PAID INTERNSHIP & INDUSTRIAL ATTACHMENT 5,200

VACATION JOBS 2,400

RAPID REVENUE TEAM 315

URBAN AFFORESTATION 1,145

NYEP PROJECT STAFF 949

SANITATION GUARDS- SAMANSAMA 1,658

NON FORMAL EDUCATORS 537

VOLUNTEERS 8,552

OTHER MODULES * (SELF EMPLOYMENT MODULES) 11,237

TOTAL 108,403

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Recruitment Figures For 2010-2011Recruitment Figures For 2010-2011

REGIONSUMMARY

CETA CPA HEWWASTE

& SANIT. INTERN

S

PHONE REPAIR

S

BASKET WEAVI

NG

DRESS MAKIN

G

FILM MAKIN

G AVESECROAD MTC

HAIR DRESSI

NGBAMBO

O P. PSA TOTALUPPER EAST 2,315 600 1,141 241 500 3,000 600 30 750 900 10,077UPPER WEST 1,486 400 1,381 129 500 600 30 800 900 6,226

NORTH3,843 1,000 2,162 1,295 500 800 30 1,000 1,000 11,630

BRONG AHAFO 1,105 900 2,254 137 500 700 30 900 900 7,426

ASHANTI1,737 1,000 3,715 342 500 700 50 1,000 1,000 80 10,124

EASTERN1,218 750 2,360 75 500 600 21 800 800 65 7,189

VOLTA1,476 800 1,647 103 500 700 67 900 800 155 7,148

G. ACCRA855 950 3,586 3,102 1,500 1,000 199 200 1,300 1,000 60 13752

CENTRAL1,186 600 1,952 113 500 600 21 900 800 40 6,712

WESTERN1,192 800 2,069 113 500 700 22 850 800 7,046

HEAD OFFICE   3,531 1,849 800 1,100 7,280

TOTAL 16,413 2,200 11,331 22,267 7,499 6,000 3,000 7,000 500 200 10,000 10,000 400 700 97,510

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Recruitment Projection For 2011Recruitment Projection For 2011NO. MODULES

1ST QUARTER

2ND QUARTER

3RD QUARTER

4TH QUARTER TOTAL

1 COMMUNITY PROTECTION ASSISTANCE (CPA) 1,000 1,000 1,000 500 3,500

2 COMMUNITY EDUCATION & TEACHING ASSISTANT 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 20,000

3 AIRPORT FIRE SERVICE 200 200

4 HEALTH ASSISTANTS 2,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 5,000

5 YOUTH IN FIRE SAFETY & PREVENTION 2,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 5,000

6 YOUTH IN PRISON SUPPORT SERVICES 1,300 1,000 1,000 1,000 4,300

7 YOUTH IN IMMIGRATION 2,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 5,000

8 ICT MOBILE PHONE REPAIRS 3,000 2,000 3,000 2,000 10,000

9 DRESS MAKING & FASHION 3,000 2,000 3,000 2,000 10,000

10 HAIRDRESSING & BEAUTY CARE SERVICES 3,000 2,000 3,000 2,000 10,000

11 PARA-LEGAL SERVICES (NEW) 500 500 500 500 2,000

12 YOUTH IN SMALL SCALE MINNING (NEW) 2,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 5,000

13 YOUTH IN ROAD MAINTENANCE (NEW) 3,000 2,000 3,000 2,000 10,000

14 BAMBOO PROCESSING 150 150 150 150 600

15 FILM MAKING 250 250 250 250 1,000TOTAL

28,400 19,900 23,900 19,400 91,600

Sources of Funding

SOURCES OF FUNDS APPROVED %  MODULES

District Assembly Common Fund 15%

Waste and Sanitation & Community Protection

Ghana Educational Trust FUND 10%  Community Teachers

National Health Insurance Scheme 10%  Health Workers

ROAD FUND 10%  Road Construction

HIPC 5%  Gen. Administration

 COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE TAX 20%

 Untied Modules & Gen. Administration

 MASLOC- (Micro Financing Scheme for setting up business)

 Youth Entrepreneurship

Success Story Achievements:• Over 200,000 youth employed • Over 2,000 Rural and deprived schools revived • Health Delivery System has improved due the implementation of the Health Extension Workers Module• Over fifty thousand youth empowered with various self employment skills• Cleaner cities and communities through the Waste and Sanitation module• Conscientisation / Sensitization of youth towards work ethics, attitude and culture • Formulation of Youth Employment Bill for the Nation •Increase in Communication Service tax from 20% to 60%

Main Constraints:•Inadequate funding and delays in release of funds by funding sources to NYEP •Legal status of the programme (main streaming)• Lack of Political will•Separation of politics from employment creation

SNAP SHOPS OF BENEFICIARIES The Community Protection Assistants being Trained by the Ghana Police Service

SNAP SHOPS OF BENEFICIARIES Some Health Extension Workers Undergoing orientation

SNAP SHOPS OF BENEFICIARIES Youth in Waste and Sanitation on their

Motorised Waste Collection Tricycles managed by Zoomlion Ghana Limited

SNAP SHOPS OF BENEFICIARIES

Youth in Agric

Hon. Minister Inspecting Youth Farms

SNAP SHOPS OF BENEFICIARIES Community Education Teaching Assistants undergoing Orientation

in their District

NYEP Consultancy Services

Available for Countries who want to implement Youth

Employment Programme base on Local and World Class

Practices as in the case of Gambia and Nigera.

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Q & A

Community Protection Unit MODULE STRUCTURE

The NYEP is in collaboration with the Ministry of Interior and the Ghana Police Service for the implementation of this module. Recruitment of applicants is carried out by the NYEP, Vetting and Training by the Ghana Police Service Training Schools and Deployment by the Community Policing Unit of the Ghana Police Service

TARGET & PERFORMANCE 20,000 youth were expected to be engaged under the module nationwide. The Metropolitan, Sub metros were allocated 200 CPU each, Municipal areas 150 each, District Assemblies 100 each and Boarder Districts 150 each. Currently only 3,047 youth have been trained and deployed in selected few District Assemblies.

Source of funding: DACF:- The main source of funding is the DACF

COST

Train and deploy 5,000 CPUs . Current training cost per head is GHC 190.00

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Agric Business

MODULE STRUCTURE

Suspended after 2007 harvest. An in house review done in 2008. Youth in Agri Business about to be implemented with technical support from the Ministry of Food and Agriculture . The implementation of the Module is done by each District Task Force.

TARGET & PERFORMANCE

Out of the total of 74,870 youth who registered for the Module, 25,383 were engaged in the productive farming in the districts. The main crops cultivated are maize and vegetables.

Source of funding: Funds from HIPC were designated to finance this module.

PREVIOUS CHALLENGES

•Poor Loan recovering. Recovery of funds invested through services and inputs provided to youth farmers have not been very good•No collaboration and experience sharing with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture •No ready Market for harvested produce•Poorly equipped and resourced District Agric Extension Officers to supervise and monitor the Youth in Agric Business at the District Level •Difficulty in getting land for youth farmers

COST Train and Setup additional 25,500 Youth in the Module . Current training and setup cost per head is GHC 1,580

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Health Extension Workers

MODULE STRUCTUREThe HEW module is actively being implemented in collaboration with the Ministry of Health. It is run on the structures of the Ghana Health Service. NYEP recruits the applicants at the District level, Screening is done by the District Task Force on which The District Health Director is represented. The Health Extension Workers are trained in the District Health facilities by District Health Facilitators. The training is for a period of six months.

TARGET & PERFORMANCECurrently 15,000 applicants underwent 6 months training (theory and practical) at the various training centers in the districts. A request for an additional 10,000 HEW was received from MOH.

Source of funding: NHIS

COST

Train and deploy 10,000 HEW . Current training cost per head is GHC 613.15

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Waste and Sanitation

MODULE STRUCTUREThe NYEP and Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Environment are in collaboration in the implementation of this module. Zoomlion Ghana Limited operates the Module for management fee.

TARGET & PERFORMANCE14,032 youth have been engaged as Waste and Sanitation Assistants in the Metro, Municipal & District Assemblies throughout the country.

Source of funding: DACF: the main source of funding for this module in it DACF

MAJOR CHALLENGESThere is a high demand for the services of the waste and sanitation assistants at the districts but limited funds to support additional recruitment.

COSTTrained and deployed 22,267 beneficiaries. Cost GHC 350.00 per beneficiary

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Paid Internship

MODULE STRUCTUREThe module was directly implemented by the Ministry of Manpower Youth and Employment and NYEP Secretariat. Registered applicants are posted to organizations that request for them, taking into consideration desired skills required for enhanced productivity.

TARGET & PERFORMANCEUser organizations identify their needs for personnel, and then apply for the numbers that they need to enhance their overall output. The NYEP then posts as interns from the list of registered youth who qualify and meet the requirement of the organizations applying.

SOURCES OF FUNDING:HIPC, Road Fund, Service

MAJOR CHALLENGE:The major challenge is the unwillingness for user organizations to absorb interns after they have completed 12 month of internship with the user organizations. eg: VAT Service.

COST

Engaged 7,000 Interns nationwide .The average cost (allowance) per head per month is GHC 120.00

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Community Education Teaching Module

Module Structure The module is a collaboration between NYEP and the Ministry of Education. The Community Education Teachers are screened by the District Task Force in collaboration with the District Education Service. The teacher vacancies were declared by the District Education Offices and the selected candidate posted to the schools.

Module Engagement The module has engaged a total of 24,027 in “teacher deprived” communities nationwide.

Source of funding: GETFUND

Replace all CETA that have exited and vacancies in the District Basic Schools.

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Modules to be implemented

Technical committees have been put together to work on implementation frame work for the under listed modules. It is anticipated that the Trades & Vocations and ICT modules will be implemented by all districts before the end of December 2009.

•Youth in Trade and Vocation – have been Piloted in 8 districts

The under listed modules have also been identified as having great potential to provide employment for many youth. Technical committees will work to fashion out the framework for their implementation.

•Youth in Mining•Youth in Maritime Industry•Youth in Construction• Youth in Tourism•Youth in the oil industry etc.