Ghana’s Youth Employment Agency (YEA) and the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (NEIP) has started the training of over 1,000 applicants of YEA job centre programme in the Upper East Region.
The YEA job centre seeks to train and position the youth as entrepreneurs through an entrepreneurship and innovative programme.
The YEA job centre programme is expected to provide young Ghanaians with the required skills and experience needed to help manage their businesses and transform their ideas into useful business in the country.
The initiative seeks to train over 100,000 young entrepreneurs across the 16 regions of the country.
In order to lessen the impact of the COVID-19 on businesses the programme was aimed at training participants to understand the business sector.
The programme trained entrepreneurs from different parts of the upper East region on a on on a wide range of topics including business ethics and models, business plan development, financial planning for SGBs and how to write fundable business plans.
As training commences the job centre will also fund selected applicants to either start or expand their business.
The consultant from Larry Partners applauded YEA for such initiative, he said it help businesses to grow and expand, and also exposed existing incubation hubs to entrepreneurs in the country.
Roger Larry said government’s vision to develop the Entrepreneurial ecosystem is a welcoming idea and they as private institutions will help to ensure government succeeds.
By Juliana Tamatey, Daily Mail GH
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