Youth Employment Agency Regulations 2016, L.I. 2231 was passed in 2016, gazetted in February 2016 and entered into force in May 2016

The Youth Employment Agency began as National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) to address the ever-increasing problem of unemployment among the youth, perceived to be potential threat to National Security in 2005. It was officially inaugurated in October 2006 and functioned under the Office of the President without legal backing.

Government decided to rebrand and reposition the Agency as a Public Service Organization to better serve the teeming unemployed youth. Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Agency (GYEEDA) was born and out doored to replace NYEP in October 2012.

In spite of being migrated into the Public Service, the Agency still lacked the needed legal backing which was crucial to its operations.  Management in consultation with the necessary stakeholders presented a draft bill through the Executive to Parliament. In February 2015, the Youth Employment Agency Bill (Youth Employment Agency Act 2015, Act 887) was passed into law and assented to by the President in March 2015. Subsequently, a Legislative Instrument (Youth Employment Agency Regulations 2016, L.I. 2231) was passed in 2016, gazetted in February 2016 and entered into force in May 2016.

Mandate of the Agency

The YEA was established under the Youth Employment Act 2015 (Act 887), to oversee the development, coordination, supervision and facilitation of employment for the youth and related matters in Ghana.

 

Objective of the Agency

The object of the Agency is to develop, coordinate, supervise and facilitate the creation of jobs for the youth in the country.

Vision

To become an outstanding Public Sector Agency facilitating and creating sustainable employment opportunities for the youth nationwide.

Mission

To lead the coordination of employment opportunities and creation of jobs for the youth in Ghana.

 

MODULES (PROGRAMMES) RUN BY THE YOUTH EMPLOYMENT AGENCY CURRENTLY

 One of the mandates of the Youth Employment Agency is to create jobs for the youth through program modules

  • COMMUNITY POLICE ASSISTANT

This module offers employment opportunities for the youth by augmenting the human resource capacity of Ghana’s security services within beneficiaries cited communities.

  • YOUTH IN SPORTS

The module seeks to train the youth in various sports development management.  

  • SCHOOLS’ SUPPORT PROGRAMME

The School Support Programme is a school-based support programme aimed at ensuring the health and safe, of students and staff of the various SHSs in the country. YEA will use part of its fund allocation to fund the two employment streams under the programme namely:

-Schools Guards/Security Assistants (SAs)

-Kitchen Assistants (KAs)

OBJECTIVES

The Programme will seek to among other objectives:

  • Promote the health and safety of students and staff of various High Schools.
  • Create a supportive and orderly environment conducive for educational activities.
  • Augment the staff strength of the current security and pantry staff of the various schools across the country.

 

  • YEA JOB CENTRE

Job centre is a platform that connects job seekers to employers and provide work ready skills for job seekers to meet the demands of industry. The Job Centre provides real time interaction with a trained career advisor, provides CV support and connects to job mentors; all for FREE. The Job centre is an innovation from the Youth Employment Agency connecting youth to both private and public sector jobs.

  • YOUTH IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP

The objective of this module is to equip the youth with Entrepreneurial skills in order to create a new crop of small business owners who will intend offer employment opportunities to others.

  • YOUTH IN SANITATION

This module creates employment opportunities for the youth through maintenance of environmental cleanliness.

 

EXITED MODULES (PROGRAMMES)

The modules of the Youth Employment Agency last for a maximum of two (2) years, and it is subject to renewal by the Board.

  • Community Teaching Assistants

This module seeks to create employment opportunities for the youth through agriculture and its related businesses while empowering them to begin their own farms and also get involved in the very profitable Agricultural Value Chain.

  • Youth in Community and Health Assistants

The module seeks to create employment opportunities for the youth by adding up to the staff strength of the Ghana Health Service while assisting in basic health care delivery to hard to reach communities.

  • Youth in Agriculture and Afforestation

This module seeks to create employment opportunities for the youth through agriculture and its related businesses while empowering them to begin their own farms and also get involved in the very profitable Agricultural Value Chain.

  • Youth in Apparel and Textiles

The rationale of this module is to train the youth in the art of textile and garment making to make them employable in the fashion industry.

  • Youth in Information Communication Technology

The rationale behind this module is to target and equip the youth with information technology skills set to make them employable for the labour market.

  • Industrial Attachment

The objective of this module is to offer employment opportunities for graduates to gain hands on experience to boost their employability.

  • Youth in Paid Internship

The objective of this module is to offer employment opportunities for graduates to gain hands on experience to boost their employability.

 

GOALS ON HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

  • The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity. We at YEA believe in the youth of Ghana and we are committed to empowering them as such.
  • YEA is a government agency mandated to ensure the development, Coordination, supervision and the facilitation of employment and the creation of jobs for the youth and to provide for related matters.
  • The YEA sets standards and procedures for the employment and career development of the youth in the country.
  • We are positioning ourselves to become a one-stop shop for the employment and entrepreneurial development of the youth taking into consideration gender and persons with disability.
  • The YEA is mandated to develop guidelines for the implementation of an integrated and innovative national youth employment programme.
  • To Facilitate the employment of the youth in the public and private sectors of the economy; our focus is not just the public sector but also to provide a conducive environment for private businesses to thrive, so they employ more young people in the country.

 

STATISTICS ON HUMAN RESOURCE 

A total of Four (4) Modules are currently being supervise with One hundred and Forty Beneficiaries.

Community Protection Assistants (CPA) -14

Youth in Sports -3

School Support Programme -20

Youth in Sanitation -103

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