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GHANA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT

INNOVATION

PROBLEM DISCRIPTION• Data from GAG research network shows excess supply of graduate to the tune of 75000

annually into the Ghanaian labor market• Graduate unemployment has become a great social problem since most unemployed youth

resort to social vices like prostitution , armed robbery ,just to mention a few• We extended our research to some refugee camps where we found out that a lot of the

inmates are suffering due to lack skills of fund raising and entrepreneurship in other to adequately keep up the centers.

• Free lands photographers are suffering from technology change from analogue to digital which rendered the analogue cameras outmoded.

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year grad-uated

012345 graduates

% employed%unemployed

objectives

• The objective of G-YEI is to transform the university students to become job creators on the wings of entrepreneurship.

• To make digital instant photography attractive and money-link to the Ghanaian youth within the next five years.

• To reduce youth unemployment by 25% in the next two years

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Strategies Learning platforms and knowledge sharing conferencesOrganize business plan competition to reward talented individuals and groups with impressive business plans.Give self employable training and working skills in instant digital photography and strategic refilling of print catheridgies for cost effective work delivery

Photographic materials are provided by resourced dealers which is made possible by linking the

micro finance institutions as a money link in a form of giving soft loans to the trainees in a group loan to

facilitate immediate implementation of the

skills acquired.

Result

• Fifty unemployed youth are being engaged in digital instant photography.

• The Liberian refugee camp of the people living with disability can now prepare concrete business proposals to source for funds to run the activities of the camp.

• We have 20 Ghanaian youth who now engage in organizing conferences to assist the unemployed.

• Photographers are now enjoying full cost effective running of their business due to the catheridge refill strategy the acquired during the training seminal.

• We have provided a platform for business networking and enhanced the culture of innovation and entrepreneurship