The National Service Scheme (NSS) Executive Director, Osei Assibey Antwi, announced at a user agency stakeholder meeting held at the University of Ghana’s Cedi Conference Hall that the Scheme has introduced an online portal called ‘Flair’ to guarantee personnel acquire employable skills and start their own enterprises as part of efforts to reduce the unemployment in the country.
The programme was launched with the vision “Deployment for Employment”.
He explained that under this initiative, user agencies will be able to make requests for graduates with specific skills or training to perform national service duties at their end through the employability platform. He added that it also provides stakeholders with skill-matching information, such as a course of study or profession, as well as a database that contains information on both national service individuals and user agencies.
Mr. Assibey Antwi called on the user agencies as formidable partners in achieving the National Service Scheme’s aim of providing employment opportunities and entrepreneurial skills for the youth in the wake of increasing employment through the “Flair” initiative.
Beginning with the next service year, personnel assigned to educational institutions will receive at least one month of training before they begin to teach Mr. Assibey Antwi added.
This inventiveness by the National Service Scheme is commendable and we hope that it will be well implemented for the advancement of the youth and the country as a whole. We do not want another case of the Nation Builder’s Corps (NABCO) saga which provided only temporary employment for its beneficiaries.
The government must also explore other sustainable means of reducing the unemployment rate in the country