Ministers will be hoping their # 1 billion
youth contract programme can make a difference to the jobs market, which saw overall unemployment rise to its highest level since January 1996 in the three months to November last year.
The current quarter is set to be the most difficult for the jobs market since the recession, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has warned, on the day the deputy prime minister asks UK firms to sign up to the government's
youth contract programme.
Not exact matches
We've introduced the biggest back to work
programme in this country's history, including our new
Youth Contract to get more young people into work.
In the scandal that hit the now
Youth Employment Agency (YEA), some companies including Zoomlion Ghana Limited, RLG, Asongtaba Cottage Industry Limited and Better Ghana Management Services Limited, among others were
contracted to render services under various modules for the GYEEDA
programme.
He mentions
programmes like apprenticeships, the
Youth Contract, investment, the Green Investment Bank and lifting the tax allowance.
«The work we're doing through the
youth contract and through the work
programme and through work experience should be supported by people like the trade unions and the Labour party instead of being carped at by them, which is what they do the whole time.»
The projects include rehabilitation and strengthening of River Niger Bridge; award of a BOT
contract for revitalization of the Onitsha Port Project, re positioning of agricultural areas to align them with Anambra Imo River Basin Authority for better yields; poverty alleviation
programme through micro-credit grants to widows and
youths; scholarship award to
youths for secondary and tertiary education as well as for ICT and other skill acquisition.