Oppong Nkrumah’s youth jobs plan: track every job created, separate skills from hiring, and let private capital lead.
Member of Parliament for Ofoase/Ayirebi, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has proposed five key measures to address the country’s growing youth unemployment challenge, including anchoring all government job programmes to published delivery scorecards that clearly track beneficiaries, cost per job created, time-to-placement, and employment retention rates. He also called for a distinction between skills development and job creation, arguing that each should be funded separately because training individuals without creating demand for their skills only leads to disappointment. Additionally, he urged the government to shift from sovereign financing to private-sector mobilisation, suggesting that the state focus on de-risking investments, co-investing where necessary, and providing regulatory clarity, while private capital drives large-scale job creation.
