A Two-Day Youth Entrepreneurship Training Programme for AfCFTA Opportunities, under the auspices of the National Youth Authority (NYA) and UNDP, was extended to the people of West Gonja municipality of the Savannah region.
The training, meant to enhance the business skills and knowledge on the operations of Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and also to promote youth involvement in intra-African trade and market opportunities, targets young men and women in the municipality with entrepreneurial drive to create economic livelihood for themselves and others. The 20 young selected entrepreneurs from the municipality are expected to benefit from the piloting stage of the programme.
Archibald Donkoh Junior, Director of programmes and operation at NYA, explained that the purpose of the training was to support young people who have taken the initiative to venture into entrepreneurship, because employment is the expectation of every youth in the country.
He said sometimes, it was the difficulties and the frustrations associated with such entrepreneurial initiatives that the NYA and the UNDP decided to partner to support such young entrepreneurs.
Mr. Donkoh, disclosed that the training is replicated in ten regions across the country with two districts benefiting in each region.
According to him lots of young men and women did not either know, hear or understand anything about the Africa Continental Free Trade, let alone to take advantage of it and so the training explained how young entrepreneurs can access the AfCFTA market and thereby expand their trade.
He advised the Ghanaian youth to become businessmen and create their own businesses without looking up to anybody to employ them because all the billionaires of the world started with their own small businesses.
Two of the young entrepreneurs, a seamstress and a baker, expressed their excitement about the training programme, which they said have broadened their horizon on a lot of opportunities they did not know.
The two-day training was attended by 20 young entrepreneurs in the West Gonja municipal and and was filled with joy in their faces after the training.
