National service personnel will undertake service abroad in the new program

Executive Director of the National Services Secretariat, Mustapha Ussif.

The National Service Scheme (NSS) will put in place a program that will give new graduates the opportunity to travel abroad for up to three months to work with a company..

the The National Service Global Practice Initiative aims to transform Ghana's youth into world-leading youth leaders with universal experience, ideas and best practices to contribute to development of their local communities.

The initiative that form as part of the Plan's strategic plan, should begin with the National Service 2019/2020 badignments, and offer opportunity between 100 and 200 graduates.

The executive director of the program, Mustapha Ussif, announced this event in Accra during a national dialogue on youth unemployment on the theme: "Addressing Youth Unemployment in Ghana: Strategies for Sustainability and Disability". # 39; inclusion ".

Mr. Mustapha Ussif explained that the program was needed because the Program wanted to have a sufficient number of well-prepared Ghanaian leaders to tackle local problems and propose local solutions to build strong communities using global best practices.

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It is estimated that about 50% of graduates leaving Ghanaian universities would not find employment two years after their national service and that 20% of them would not find employment after three years. years of full service.

According to the Executive Director, it was for all to develop innovative ways to mitigate the threat.

Mr. Ussif said that because of the phenomenon, government launched initiatives such as the Nation Builder Corps, the Youth Employment Program, and Planting to Nurture and Create Jobs so youth can demonstrate their intelligence and skills in vital sectors of the economy. country.

With regard to scanning, Mr. Ussif said that the National Service application had been digitized to improve efficiency and provided with large data for realistic badysis and decision-making for the system.

Regarding measures to develop graduate entrepreneurs, the executive director said that the program had begun in September 2017 to pilot the model of entrepreneurship in national services with 500 graduates.

The model provided support to graduates with strong business ideas and business plans to apply their ideas throughout the national service period and beyond.

Ussif announced that the program has entered into a strategic partnership with the Songhai Group to create a training center in which 10 service personnel would be trained and controlled by consultants on how to develop next generation digital tools. .