NYA organises capacity building in leadership for selected youth

The National Youth Authority (NYA) has organised a day’s training workshop for some selected youth to build their capacity in leadership and civic competences at the Trades Union Hall (TUC) in Kumasi.

The 81 participants were selected from districts across Bono, Bono East, Ashanti, Western North and Ahafo regions, and are supposed to supervise, report on, initiate actions and monitor various youth intervention programmes in the districts.

In all, some 261 young leaders, selected from 60 districts are expected to be trained across the country and would be tasked to go back to their districts and stimulate change.

Mr. George Orwell Amponsah, Ashanti NYA Regional Director, noted that all the authority’s interventions had been diffused to the districts and that it was the young people who are supposed to supervise and take action, hence the need to build their capacity.

The Ashanti NYA Regional Director said laudable government interventions, without youth involvement, would create a missing link between policy and implementation.

The training, therefore, offered the NYA the opportunity to identify more equally potential young people for training.

Mr George Amponsah said the NYA expected the participants to go back to the communities and identify flagship projects that they implement as a way of solving problems associated with their respective districts or communities.

They would then give feedback to the authority, emphasizing that every individual exudes leadership qualities and the focus should not always be on only political leadership.

The Head of Human Resource at NYA, Mr. Ekow Eshun, explained that the emerging issues in youth development called for the need to build capacity for the young leaders at the grassroots to empower them come out with ideas and innovations that propelled development.

Mr. Ekow Eshun said the NYA as the foremost institution for youth development in Ghana has quite a number of interventions for young people and appealed to the youth to take advantage of the National Youth Apprenticeship Programme and other interventions by the authority to build their skills for livelihood rather than considering only the immediate benefits of the time.

From Thomas Agbenyegah Adzey, Kumasi

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