{"id":738186,"date":"2022-01-06T20:46:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T20:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/youstart-better-way-of-dealing-with-unemployment-than-nabco\/"},"modified":"2022-01-06T20:46:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T20:46:16","slug":"youstart-better-way-of-dealing-with-unemployment-than-nabco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/youstart-better-way-of-dealing-with-unemployment-than-nabco\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018YouStart\u2019 better way of dealing with unemployment than NABCO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/43354191.295.jpg\" alt=\"Western Regional Minister, Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah\" title=\"Western Regional Minister, Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah\" width=\"295\" height=\"231\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Western Regional Minister, Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\"><b>&#8216;YouStart&#8217; would help generate more returns &#8211; Minister<\/b><\/p>\n<p>NABCO cost GH\u00a21.3 billion without any substantial returns to govt &#8211; Minster<\/p>\n<p>Darko-Mensah asks youth of the Western region to get their business plan ready for \u2018YouStart\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Western Regional Minister, Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah, has stated that the \u2018YouStart\u2019 was a better way of dealing with unemployment compared to NABCO.<\/p>\n<p>According to the minister unlike the Nation Builders\u2019 Corps (NABCO) programme the \u2018YouStart\u2019 had the potential to yield returns from the investments given to the youth.<\/p>\n<p>Okyere Darko-Mensah who made these remarks in an interaction with the media said the \u2018YouStart\u2019 initiative was the surest way of increasing economic activities to sure that youth get employment.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the initiative was the best policy the government had developed to deal with the issue of unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTake something like NABCO. When salaries of NABCO personnel are paid, it cost the government GH\u00a21.3 billion. That whole big project called Planting for Food and Jobs cost the government GH\u00a21.6 billion, which of them is more sustainable,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the NABCO had no multipliers in terms of revenue or generation of wealth, though they made some impact in specific areas of government departments.<\/p>\n<p>He, therefore, urged the youth of the Western region to put their business plans together as they awaited the implementation of the \u2018YouStart\u2019 programme since their plan would determine the amount of money they acquired from the programme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGet your business plans ready, in March the initiative will start. Those who have bigger projects, nothing should stop you from coming together. Three or four people can come together as a group and take the money,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He advised the youth to be judicious in using the money they are given through the fund.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western Regional Minister, Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah &#8216;YouStart&#8217; would help generate more returns &#8211; Minister NABCO cost GH\u00a21.3 billion without any substantial returns to govt &#8211; Minster Darko-Mensah asks youth of the Western region to get their business plan ready for \u2018YouStart\u2019 Western Regional Minister, Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah, has stated that the \u2018YouStart\u2019 was a better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}