1. REDUCING UNEMPLOYMENT
AMONG THE YOUTH OF GHANA
THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Youth Innovate, Ghana

2. Effects of youth Unemployment in
Ghana
 Youth unemployment rate is 25% in 2012 1
 Poverty - Four out of every ten Ghanaians live
in poverty
 Brain drain - 47% 2 of college graduates from
Ghana are seeking greener pastures abroad
 Social vices - Increase in social vices such as
drug abuse, prostitution, armed
robbery, teenage pregnancy
1 http://www.infoghana.info/news/overcoming-youth-unemployment-ghana-part-26
2 http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=93176

3. Demographics of unemployed
youth in Ghana
 Age group for youth is 15 -24 years
 Unemployment rate is highest in urban areas
 60% of the unemployed youth are females
 1 out of every 2 unemployed youth wants to
start a business on his/her own

4. Segmentation of the unemployed
youth in Ghana by Gender
Graph shows higher unemployment in urban areas and also females –
Housing and population data in year 2000, Ghana
30
25
20
15 Sex (15-24)
10 Male(15-24)
Females(15-24)
5
0
Urban Rural Average
Ghana
Reference - http://www.cepa.org.gh/researchpapers/Youth73.pdf

5. Major Causes of youth
Unemployment in Ghana
 Inadequate planning for integrating the Junior and
Senior High Schools into the trades/vocations and
job placements
 Education and training have no link to the needs
of the important sectors of the economy
 Collapse of Ghana’s industrial base
 Shrinking of the public sector employment
opportunities coupled with a relatively slow growth
of the private sector
 Lack of a coherent national employment policy
and comprehensive strategy to deal with the
employment problem

6. Proposed Solution
 An entrepreneurship program where the youth
receive training to form teams to start their
own businesses to create wealth and
employment.
 The program will ensure the teams identify
problems or opportunities and them bring out
innovative solutions to them.
 Viable business solutions will be given support
in terms of logistics and seed funding to start
for a minority equity which will be reinvested to
support future businesses.

7. Impact plan
 Reach out to 50,000 young people by
partnering with vocational and technical
institutions to give training to these young
people
 Enlist highly motivated young people into the
program
 Create a fund that will enable these skilled you
to start their own businesses. Proceeds from
the fund will be used to enroll other youth

8. Desired outcome
 Create successful business across the country
each year
 Empower young people in Ghana to create
wealth and jobs
 The success of successful businesses will
create a ripple effect which will inspire other
young people across the nation to also start
businesses that addresses problems while
creating wealth and jobs