The National Service Secretariat (NSS) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Kosmos Innovation Center (KIC) to assist small enterprises under the mentorship of the Center to scale up their capacities by supporting them with fresh Ghanaian graduates.
The agreement to be executed under the Kosmos Innovation Center Incubation Hub would see graduates from universities across Ghana groomed by businesses under the KIC programmes, by orienting them with skills and tools that would adequately prepare them for future opportunities.
The initiative would also help imbibe the essence of entrepreneurship among the graduates, and potentially recruit them into very prospective field.
The Executive Director of the KIC, Benjamin Gyan-Kesse, during the ceremony, expressed his concern over the increasing rate of the unemployment in the country, and said it was essential for a structured programme involving public-private partnership to bridge the knowledge and skills gap among graduates.
He disclosed that aside enabling the startups under the mentorship of the KIC to scale up by providing them with labour the initiative was also KIC’s module to add value to graduates.
Mr. Gyan-Kesse commended the NSS for its commitment to the project and considering the partnership a viable venture, noting that the Secretariat’s support to post National Service Personnel to use their service period to develop and grow businesses within the KIC landscape was highly plausible.
The Executive Director of the National Service Secretariat, Mr. Osei Assibey Antwi, stated that his outfit was committed to collaborating with key public and private agencies to provide employment opportunities for personnel after their service period.
“The deficit we are facing in the employment scene in Ghana could be curbed when we adequately equip the youth to venture into entrepreneurship; even better when it is Agripreneurship,” Mr. Assibey Antwi said, and expressed joy in the partnering with the KIC for the project.
