The National Entrepreneurship and Innovations Programme-NEIP has unveiled an ambitious project targeted at creating 120,000 jobs after training 100,000 in skill areas.
The programme dubbed Skills for Jobs Project was launched in Accra.
Unemployment remains a major challenge to the youth of Ghana to help reduce unemployment in the country, NEIP is proposing the skills for job project to provide practical skills in some trade areas to help provide jobs for about Six Hundred Thousand (120,000) youth and to help reduce rural-urban migration and as well as address the jobs and skills challenges faced by the youth of Ghana, especially in the rural and peri-urban areas.
The Skills for Jobs (S4J) Project is a deliberate Jobs and Skills intervention expected to train about 100,000 youth to provide them with lifelong Skills to enhance their employability and further ensure sustainable livelihood across the country.