Agambire to speak on youth employment in Abuja
The Chief Executive of Rlg Communications, Mr Roland Agambire, is one of the key entrepreneurs invited to address the forthcoming World Bank Group workshop on youth employment in West Africa, in the Nigerian city of Abuja later this month.
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The two-day regional workshop, according to Marvin Taylor-Dormond, Director of Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), Private Sector Evaluation Division of the World Bank, would be on the broader theme of “Learning from past experiences for future opportunities in youth employment in West Africa.”
It is being organised by the World Bank Group, comprising the World Bank itself, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA).
The workshop will bring together government officials, private sector representatives, donors, civil society, international organisations and operational staff of the World Bank from Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Liberia to share experiences and best practices in creating opportunities for youth employment and raising productivity through improvement in human capital dimensions and business environment.
It will also discuss issues related to youth employment as well as the findings of a recently completed evaluation by the Independent Evaluation Group on the World Bank’s Youth Employment Programmes; the World Development Report on Jobs, the IFC’s Jobs Report and the World Bank’s Africa Region upcoming flagship report that will be launched at the workshop.
Mr Agambire is expected to speak on “The role of private sector in the youth employment and encouraging wage employment in Africa”, having pioneered the use of ICT for job creation in Ghana, Nigeria and The Gambia where thousands of youth have gained employment in mobile phone and computer assembling, repairs and software programming.
In Ghana, the Rlg Institute of Technology collaborated with the then New Patriotic Party government to implement the Youth-in-ICT Module under the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP), a social intervention lauded by many. It later became the Ghana Youth Entrepreneurial and Employment Development Agency (GYEEDA) under the current National Democratic Congress administration.
Rlg is working with The Gambian government and the government of Osun State in Nigeria on similar programmes.
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Regarded as one of the youngest business entrepreneurs on the continent, Mr Agambire has won local and international recognition for his ICT device assembling initiative as well as having created thousands of jobs for many in Ghana, Nigeria, The Gambia, Kenya, South Africa, Angola, China and Dubai.
“We are humbled by this singular recognition by no less an institution than the World Bank. It means our support to governments in the region on social intervention measures have been worthwhile”, said Prosper Harrison-Addo, Head of Legal & Corporate Affairs at Rlg, who indicated that Mr Agambire would use the platform to suggest some workable solutions to youth unemployment challenges on the continent.
Daily Graphic/Ghana