Inclusive Vocational Training for Physically Disabled and Socially Disadvantaged Young people in Northern Ghana
By Prosper Bazaanah
1. Introduction and Background
Many countries in Africa and particularly sub-Saharan Africa, are recording alarmingly high numbers of unemployment, skill gap and socio-economic exclusion among disabled and deprived young populations.
This is particularly evident in large urban and rural districts/municipalities like the Northern Region of Ghana, where the prevalence of disability and youth unemployment has been reported to be between 13-40%.
Inappropriate school environments, lack of skills training, and access to labour market, coupled with socio-economic forces, compel these young people into the street begging for survival. There is a need for initiatives to close these skills and employment gap.
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Another academic year is here with us and in less than a month successful Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates will be placed in second-cycle schools of their choice.
That is normally the time the Ministry of Education and its agency the Ghana Education Service (GES) are always flooded with parents often accompanied by their children to arrange for their children to be placed in ‘better schools’ instead of those their children had earlier selected.
Over the last two consecutive years, the situation almost degenerated into chaos and that was why this year the GES carefully set aside a month-long period to sensitise the students and parents to the process to enable them to understand the procedures and also make the right choices.