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  The government will implement an initiative to create one million jobs in three years under the GhanaCARES programme. Known as ‘ Youstart ’, the initiative will support young entrepreneurs to gain access to capital, training, technical skills and mentoring to enable them to launch and operate their own businesses. The Minister of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, who said this when he presented the 2022 Budget to Parliament on November 17, said “Mr Speaker, this understanding of the youth employment challenge, as well as extensive consultations with stakeholders including youth associations and educational institutions across the country, have led to the development of the YouStart initiative as a key vehicle to create one million jobs in three years under the GhanaCARES programme”.   Implementing Partners According to him, the Ghana Enterprises Agency (GEA), the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (NEIP), and partner financial institutions, would serve as t...

  We want jobs, start-up capital -  Youth appeal By Richard Agodzo Scores of unemployed youth will look to the 2022 Budget presentation tomorrow with cautious optimism for a solution to a national canker that previous budgets have failed to -tackle head-on. After years of failed attempts to secure jobs in both the public and private sectors, some victims of the scrunching unemployment menace told the GRAPHIC BUSINESS in separate interactions that they will hope for temporary and permanent fixes that could put their talents and expertise into use in return for income for their well-beings. They mentioned the security services as well as the agricultural sector and the service sectors as some of the areas that should be deliberately stimulated with the right policies to help unleash their full potential to grow and create jobs. While some of the affected persons insisted that they were capable of starting and running their own businesses rather than waiting to be employed, they ...