Government will, on May 1, launch one of its major programmes aimed at addressing livelihood empowerment and graduate unemployment.
The programme, dubbed the Nation Builders Corps, is focused on tackling public service delivery in the health, education, agriculture and sanitation sectors as well as drive revenue mobilization and collection.
100,000 graduates who have completed their National Service are expected to be engaged under the programme this year.
This was announced by Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia on Saturday, at Winneba, when he addressed the 2016/2017 graduates of the University of Education during their 22nd Congregation.
While challenging the new graduates to “go out there and make a difference”, Dr Bawumia said government was seriously engaged in thinking through solutions to the unemployment situation, especially graduate unemployment.
The Vice President stressed that with Ghana’s economy growing from 3.7% to 8.5% last year, making it the fastest growing economy in the world, the feat had to translate into jobs.
Throwing further light on the new programme, Vice President Bawumia explained that 7 modules would be outdoored.
He mentioned them as, “Feed Ghana module where you want to have people who would go in as agric extension officers to help our farmers. You have the Educate Ghana module where we want people to help in our High schools for teaching especially science and mathematics. The Revenue Ghana module will take graduates into the Ghana Revenue Authority to help in the collection of revenue. You have the Heal Ghana module where you will employ nurses who have been sitting at home for years without jobs; we will be finding them space in the Heal Ghana module.”
He continued that there would be the Enterprise Ghana module where graduates would be assigned to various private sector enterprises for jobs and skills training as well as development.
“Then you have the Digitise Ghana module where graduates will be sent to the IT sector for the Digital Ghana agenda, the transformation agenda, where they will be attached to the NIA or to the Ghana Post or to the Birth and Death Registry or to the Land Registry. They will be doing digitisation work for this country,” the Vice President stated.
“We also have the Governance Ghana module where people will be attached to various local authorities. We are beginning this and this year by the grace of God we will be recruiting 100,000 graduates,” he mentioned.
The Vice President indicated that the Nation Builders Corps would be national in character, and hire graduates across the length and breathe of the country.
“It is a broad based programme which will spread across every constituency in this country. The minimum number of graduates per constituency under this program that will be hired would be 300, and it will go up to 450 depending on the size of that particular constituency or district.
“This is a major initiative that will be launched on May 1st, and for those who have completed their national service recruitment will start on that day online,” he disclosed.
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