Pathways for Sustainable Employment for Women and Youth (PASEWAY) has intensified the call on the government to create an enabling environment for youth in the informal Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET).
The organisation wants the government to establish a financial support programme for artisans in the informal sector to incentivize the youth and as well help to address unemployment.
PASEWAY over the years have trained a myriad of youth in technical skills training within the hospitality and construction sector.
Equipping the youth in giving them the right skillset to keep them on top of critical job duties has been the topmost priority of PASEWAY.
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This aims at reducing unemployment rate in the country by ensuring that disadvantaged young people successfully pursue gainful employment or self-employment.
Eric Saforo, the project lead for Pathways for Sustainable Employment for Women and Youth addressing the media on Friday, February 10, 2023, at a policy action workshop in Accra indicated that the role of government to address unemployment is crucial as they provide the enabling environment for the youth to thrive.
He has lauded the government for making tremendous strides at implementing a free Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) but was quick to quiz those who could not sit in the class room to benefit from the policy.
”Government has introduced free TVET but in the TVET space we have what is called informal TVET and these are people who could not go to school and learn the technical skills training yet the government has failed to make provision for them”.
I think that the government should have a policy which would support the informal TVET so that when they are done with the training they can access a financial fund to at least start a livelihood, he suggested.
Eric Saforo maintained that there is the need for the government to operate as a nexus between policy and practice in addressing the socio-economic problems which are negatively impacting youth.
He likewise entreated the teeming youth to take advantage of the Free TVET policy by acquiring the requisite technical skills training to enhance their future.
By Maxwell Otoo|OnuaFM|Onuaonline.com.
