NDC Launches Job Creation Strategy Aiming for 1.7 Million Positions

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has launched a comprehensive strategy to create 1.7 million jobs between 2025 and 2029 to address the rising unemployment crisis.

The initiative is expected to absorb the expected 300,000 yearly entrants into the workforce and reduce current unemployment levels by 120,000 each year.

The Party’s Employment and Jobs Creation Committee announced the initiative at a briefing in Accra on Monday.

A statement signed and issued by Mr Goosie Tanoh, Chairman, Employment and Jobs Creation Committee, NDC, said the NDC would achieve the milestone through five pillars, including modernising and revamping employment institutions and legislation focused on job creation.

The Party said it would implement what it termed as “Aspire 24” programme to reorient employer and employee mindsets and implement the “National Employment Trust” to mobilise resources for “concerted jobs push”.

Other initiatives include the implementation of the “Levelling Up” programme to ensure inclusiveness in employment, and coordination through a high-level “National Employment Coordination Committee”.

The NDC said it would modernise the Legal and Institutional Environment to accelerate decent job creation.

“This will include accelerated implementation of the Ghana Labour Market Information System, updating the Labour Bill 2024 into an Employment Act to replace the existing Labour Act 2023, and putting in place a Bilateral Labour migration framework to support safe, orderly and regular labour migration of Ghanaians to other countries, facilitate access to decent work abroad, and ensure respect for human rights and fundamental labour rights for Ghanaian workers who migrate,” it said.

The Party said the proposed “Aspire 24” programme would equip Ghanaian workers and enterprises with the values, mindset, skills, tools, work ethic, and incentives to increase productivity and thrive in the 24-hour Economy.

“With deliberate and painstaking policy interventions anchored on the 24-hour economy, we aim to create 1.7 million jobs between 2025 and 2029 and systematically reduce unemployment to below 5 per cent by 2034, if not earlier,” the Party said.