The Youth Employment Agency (YEA) will review its Community Protection Assistants (CPAs) Module as contract of beneficiaries ends August 31, 2022.
The YEA Management in a notice to the beneficiaries indicated, the beneficiaries’ “service of engagement with the Agency officially ends this month, 31st August 2022”.
According to Management, it is evaluating all programmes and would advertise new programmes that would be rolled out in the ensuing months for the youth’s benefit.
“Management however, wishes to state that it is evaluating all programmes and will advertise new programmes that would be rolled out in ensuing month.”
Accordingly, the employed youth who are estimated to be over 12,000, are expected to vacate their posts by the end the month.
As a consequence, they would also cease to receive their monthly allowances.
The Community Protection Assistants (CPAs) Module is an innovative programme directly under the supervision of the Youth Employment Agency.
It was introduced to ensure that the Ghanaian community’s crime prevention, social justice and welfare were prioritized.
The module sought to train and deploy the youth in communities to provide intelligence on security issues in the respective areas.
It formed part of several training courses being offered to thousands of youth by the Agency in various sectors including health, education and security to enable the youth gain meaningful employment for a living.
Youth Employment Agency
The Youth Employment Agency (YEA) was established under the Youth Employment Act 2015 (Act 887).
It is to empower young people to contribute meaningfully to the socio-economic and sustainable development of the nation.
Its objective is to support the youth between the ages of 15 to 35 years through skills training and internship modules to transit from a situation of unemployment to that of employment.
