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Star-Ghana Foundation partners Botnar Foundation to implement Action for Youth Development project
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EUNICE AGBENYADZI ADDRESSING THE PARTICIPANTS ON THE PROJECT
Star-Ghana Foundation with funding from the Botnar Foundation has started the implementation of a three-year-project named Action for Youth Development (AfYD) in the New Juaben South Municipality (NJSMA)of the Eastern region.
The project also known as “our city project” with focus on the youth as the primary target would contribute to a municipality where young people would be informed and have the capacity to participate actively in governance and influence improved services across all sectors.
It would also strengthen the capacities of the youth-led/ based organisations, networks and coalition to mobilize, represent and engage constructively with duty bearers to sustainably address their needs and priorities in decisions and resources distribution.
The Head of Programmes at Star-Ghana Foundation, Eunice R. Agbenyadzi made this known at an inception durbar held to provide a larger platform for all relevant stakeholders particularly the youth groups, municipal authorities, traditional leaders, and other actors to deliberate and provide more inputs for the design and implementation of the project.
Ms Agbenyadzi indicated that in 2020, the district league table (DLT 2020) rated the New Juaben Municipality as one of the 10 least performing districts on governance.
“The score indicated a poor performance in the implementation of its action plan for development, and as the action plan is a critical tool for development, its poor implementation impacts on the quality of services,” she added.
For that reason, she stated that Star-Ghana Foundation with funding from Botnar came up with the project to help to whip up the interest of the citizenry, especially the youth to engage themselves in the issues of governance and to press on duty bearers to engage the citizenry in their activities.
“Overall, this project would contribute to ensuring that young people are not left behind in the development processes and benefits and would promote partnership between duty bearers and citizens to ensure that development programming is more meaningful for young people and delivers health and wellbeing, access to social services, including education, decent work for young people,” she said.
She revealed that the project was approached from an inclusion perspective and would contribute to reducing inequalities within access to social services for different categories of young people and would strengthen an enabling environment for youth inclusion and influence in governance as well as access to quality public goods and services within Koforidua.
“Through this focus, the AfYD makes a direct impact on the achievements of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1,2,3,4,5,8,10 and 16,” the Head of Programmes indicated.
For his part, the Coordinating Director of the NJSMA, Mr Edward Abazing was grateful to Star-Ghana Foundation and Botnar for the project build the capacities of the youth and whip up their interest to participate in their programmes.
He indicated that the assembly as part of its programmes deem it necessary to plan with the youth on their programmes, revealing that unfortunately most of the youth refused to show interest or attend their programmes when they were needed to share their inputs during town hall meeting among others.
He stated that the project would help greatly to bring them on board to contribute their quota in the development of the assembly.
A representative of Botnar Foundation, Zur Oren said his outfit was working in 12 counties around the world of which Ghana was part and was committed to developing young people.
He stated that the project would succeed based on collaboration and urged Star-Ghana Foundation to take the wheel and gear the project by involving all stakeholders in a manner that would benefit the people of Koforidua.
From Ama Tekyiwaa Ampadu Agyeman, Koforidua
A 24-year-old tricycle (Pragyia) rider, has been jailed three months by the Nkawie Circuit Court in the Atwima Nwabiagya South Municipality of the Ashanti Region for biting a Community Police Assistant (CPA) at Nkawie.
Abdul Aziz pleaded guilty to the charge of negligently causing harm and was convicted on his own plea.
Police Inspector Kwaku Frimpong, prosecuting told the court presided by Mr Robert Addo that, complainants in the case were officers from the Nkawie Divisional Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service.
He said on September 3, at about 8:40am, the complainants led by Chief Inspector Abedi Larbi, were on their official patrol duty to ensure safety at Nkawie township and met the convict, who was in-charge of a Pragya tricycle with registration number M-25-A-3722.
He explained that, after a careful inspection, it was detected that the convict was without licence and other required documents, so Alhassan Seidu, the CPA, was instructed to lead him to the office for the next action.
On their way to the office, the convict took a different direction, so the CPA directed him to take the right route to the police station, but he disobeyed and attacked the CPA, resulting in a struggle between them.
In the process the convict bit the CPA on the chest, so he shouted for help and some nearby youth rushed to the scene and helped him to arrest the convict.
In his caution statement, he admitted the offence and after further investigations he was charged and brought before the court. –GNA
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The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has urged the government to place all 54,985 candidates affected by the 2026 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) placement exercise in schools and publish the final outcome.
The party says the government must ensure that the affected candidates secure actual school places rather than merely being allowed to access the self-placement portal.
In a statement signed by the Chairman of the NPP Policy Co-ordination Committee, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the party expressed concern about the situation facing the candidates.
The NPP said the government had announced that 53,887 of the affected candidates could use the self-placement system after initially being told that they had not qualified for secondary school.
It, however, argued that access to the portal did not guarantee that candidates would secure their preferred schools or programmes.
“Ghanaian parents and candidates will judge the resolution of the challenge by one thing only: how many of the original 54,985 are sitting in a classroom, not how many were allowed to open a website,” the statement noted.
The party said the government’s own figures showed that the country had 859,828 declared vacancies for 623,072 BECE candidates.
It explained that the main challenge was the concentration of demand in a small number of highly subscribed schools.
The NPP noted that 313,283 candidates selected Category A schools as their first choice, while those schools had 76,417 declared vacancies.
It therefore called on the government to explore ways to improve schools with available spaces, including providing teachers, laboratories and better programmes.
The party urged the government to use the 85 private schools participating in the Free SHS programme to absorb candidates who remained without placements.
The NPP further called for clarification of the rule and pass mark used for this year’s placement exercise, saying parents were entitled to know the standard before their children sat the examination.
It urged the government to take urgent action to ensure that the affected candidates were not left behind in the transition to secondary education.
By: Jacob Aggrey
