NYEP to
organize headcount for its beneficiaries
Accra, June 23, Ghanadot/GNA - The
National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) will from June 24
organize a headcount for all beneficiaries to take
inventories of those at post and wipe out the ghost names on
its payroll.
This initiative was to save the programme millions of Ghana
cedis paid to ghost names on payroll and also support its
expansion to employ the teeming unemployed youth.
Addressing the media on Tuesday, Mr. Abuga Pele, Acting
National Coordinator of the Programme, said as part of
projects to strengthen the Programme, the Ministry of Youth
and Sport had initiated processes to ensure that the NYEP
was covered by an Act of Parliament.
“We are also preparing a Cabinet Memo for an Executive
Instrument to ensure that NYEP funds are deducted at the
funding sources into the NYEP Fund and also developing a
programme to encourage private organizations and developing
partners to channel resources into it”, he added.
He said the Programme had also contracted the Management
Service Division of the Civil Service to restructure
existing NYEP Management Arrangement and also establish a
Human Resource Management System to address all human
resource functions.
Mr. Pele said the Programme had aimed at recruiting an
additional 100,000 youth between July 2009 and January 2010
and also implement an appropriate and comprehensive exit
plan for the career progression and professionalism of
beneficiaries.
“We are also reviewing the current strategies to transform
the Programme into a permanent, better funded employment
agency”, he said.
The Acting Coordinator denied rumours that government was
planning to terminate the employment contract of NYEP staff
including District Coordinators and beneficiaries.
He cited the employment of 108,000 youth, revival of over
2,000 rural and deprived schools and the improvement upon
health delivery and sanitation in the country as some of the
successes that the programme had chalked since its inception
in 2006.
Mr. Pele mentioned irregular release of funds from funding
sources, inadequate office accommodation, vehicles for
project staff, lack of resources to monitor the Programme’s
activities at all levels and lack of exit plans for
beneficiaries as some of the challenges of the Programme.
GNA
