AS part of measures to help open up job opportunities for unemployed youth in the country, the Government, in partnership with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has established an Employment and Investment Policy (EIP) to formulate a national policy in the use of labour-based technologies in the infrastructure sector.
Through the implementation of the policy, it is envisaged that more employment avenues would be opened up in the area of infrastructure development that would make use of labour intensive methods.
The Northern Regional Minister, Mr Stephen Nayina, announced this at a four-day technical training workshop for municipal and district engineers, administrators and technicians in Tamale.
It was organised by the ILO/Ghana project and sponsored by the Department for International Development (DFID).
The minister said the “Decent Work Project” being implemented by the Government was to ensure that people were engaged in honest jobs devoid of exploitation and harmful work conditions as part of the initiatives under the EIP.
Mr Nayina impressed upon stakeholders in the construction industry to adhere to the decent work strategy by adopting labour friendly methods and simple tools where possible, to ensure job creation to give meaning to the government’s “Better Ghana” slogan.
The National Programme Manager of the ILO-EIP, Mr Charles Kwarteng Asafo-Adjei, said a rural safety network programme would be inaugurated early next year to create employment for the people of the three northern regions where unemployment is very high. It would be funded by the World Bank.
He added that the EIPU was collaborating with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and some polytechnics to develop a curriculum to include labour intensive methods in the course structure for graduates and undergraduates in the universities and polytechnics.
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