The paradox of youth empowerment: Exploring youth intervention programme in Ghana

dc.contributor.authorIle, Isioma
dc.contributor.authorBoadu, Evans Sakyi
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-06T07:07:08Z
dc.date.available2018-11-06T07:07:08Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractEmpowerment is a necessary determinant of young people’s participation in national, regional and district or local level decision-making processes. For inclusiveness in any social intervention programme, the policy process should be allembracing sharing of knowledge and active stakeholders’ participation which includes the youth. This paper delineates the context of Local Enterprise and Skills Development Programme (LESDEP) by focusing on the extent to which the programme beneficiaries (youth) were empowered to play active roles in the decision policy processes which goes beyond the rhetoric. In particular, to unpack the perception that young people empowerment in a youth-oriented programme has the potential of curbing the problem of exclusion. Inferences from the concept of an empowerment might be the premise for rethinking the debate surrounding youth empowerment in the initiatives oriented towards young people. Youth in Ghana has a very little aptitude and plays an inconsequential role in policy design; therefore, the need arises for youth empowerment to enable them to engage in the broader national policies. Having assumed a negative deviation after a further analysis using empowerment perception index (EPI), the study revealed that youth marginal involvement and consultation in decision making cannot constitute empowerment to any degree. Given the crucial implications of this for youth policy implementations at the national as well as subnational level, the paper recommended some pathways for ensuring youth empowerment in youth-oriented programmes in Ghana.en_US
dc.identifier.citationIle, I. & Boadu, E.S. (2018). The paradox of youth empowerment: Exploring youth intervention programme in Ghana. Cogent Social Sciences, 4: 1528709en_US
dc.identifier.issn2331-1886
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2018.1528709
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/4186
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherCogent OAen_US
dc.rights© 2018 The Author(s). This open access article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectBeneficiariesen_US
dc.subjectEmpowermenten_US
dc.subjectGhanaen_US
dc.subjectMonitoringen_US
dc.subjectParticipationen_US
dc.subjectYouthen_US
dc.titleThe paradox of youth empowerment: Exploring youth intervention programme in Ghanaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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