The Youth Empowerment Synergy (YES) is Ghana’s foremost and most extensive youth development organisation.
It operates as a non-governmental organisation incorporated according to the laws of Ghana. The Board of Directors are the highest decision-making authority regarding all aspects of YES, including policy direction, vision and strategy. The Management Team, comprising an Executive Director, Head of Programmes, and Head of Finance and Administration, lead the daily running of the organisation based on the direction of the Board of Directors. Staff members perform tasks assigned by the Management Team in pursuance of achieving set objectives.
Nearly 3 billion people – that is half of the world’s population – are under the age of 25. They are entering the different sectors of society in large numbers, putting immense pressures on governments around the world to wake up and face new challenges. These include the increased need for jobs and livelihoods, and the growing need for health care and education thereby increasing the stress on the environment. Social and economic disparities continue to grow, increasing the number of people living below the poverty line each day. Today, 1.3 billion people survive on less than a dollar a day and 3 billion people live on less than $2 a day. High levels of unemployment and rapidly deteriorating standards of living are resulting in destructive social unrest and dangerous levels of tension. These statistics, so being as they are, reveal little of the heavy toll that unemployment and underemployment takes on young people, their families and communities through economic hardship, human suffering, social exclusion and lost of production.
