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Government developing National Human
Resource Policy
Accra, Sept 18, Ghanadot/GNA - Nana Akomea, Minister of
Manpower, Youth and Employment on Tuesday said the Ministry
would by the end of the year develop the National Human
Resource Policy to ensure a trained and disciplined labour
force capable of sustaining the private sector.
He said although the policy draft was initiated in 2005,
lack of funds had constrained the development of the
national document which would guide policy makers, human
resource training institutions and other stakeholders in
human resource planning and
management.
Nana Akomea, who made the statement at the Meet- the -Press
series organised by the Ministry of Information and National
Orientation in Accra said the absence of comprehensive
policies and empirical data on manpower development made it
difficult to measure current trends in both employment and
unemployment rates in the country.
The Minister said an effective regulation of manpower was
crucial to monitor the activities of industrial management.
Not withstanding the constraints, he said, the Ministry
through its training institutions, such as the National
Vocational Training Institute and the Integrated Community
Centres for Employable skills continued to provide
competency based vocational and technical skills to empower
especially the youth to gain self employment.
Nana Akomea mentioned the
National Youth Employment (NYEP) as another fruitful
government intervention that has created over 107,000 youth
employment.
He noted that the NYEP was able to employ 30,000 youth as
teaching assistants to fill teaching vacancies in deprived
districts and the health extension module had also trained a
lot of the youth as nursing assistants, saying their
presence would soon be felt in hospitals.
According to him, the Ministry would soon introduce new
modules for the information Technology, Mining, Construction
and Maritime industries to provide more
employment opportunities for the youth.
The Minister explained that irregularities in the salaries
of those employed under the NYEP were due to difficulties in
gathering resources from funds such as the National Health
Insurance Levy, HIPC and the GETFUND that supported the
programme.
He said the development of the National Youth Policy was
also on course to respond to the growing needs of the youth
and to enable them to contribute their quota to
national development.
GNA
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