Beneficiaries of the UNDP livelihood enhancement equipment have been advised not to lock up the equipment in their rooms and migrate to the southern parts of Ghana in search of jobs.
Rather, they should endeavour to use the equipment to train the youth in the communities to improve on their entrepreneurial skills to enhance livelihoods, as well as promote peace for sustainable development.
Mr Abu D. Alhassan, the Chief Executive Director of Capacity Enhancement and Community Support (CAPECS) a local non-governmental organization, implementing the UNDP Livelihood for Cohesion Project, gave the advice, during the presentation of equipment and machinery to the youth and women groups at Olli in the Wa West District.
The equipment, funded by the UN Peace building Fund, included sewing and tailoring supplies, hairdressing and beautification equipment, weaving materials and livestock for breeding, vocational tools and equipment, essential safety gears, machinery for welding, drilling and spraying, hand tools and kitchen equipment were provided to 160 youth and women to enhance their skills and support income generating activities

Mr Alhassan, therefore, appealed to community members to support the project by sending their young ones to the beneficiaries to be trained and also report to the CAPECS all those who had vacated the communities after they had received the equipment, saying: “the non-utilisaton of the equipment will defeat the purpose of the project”.
“Use the equipment to invest to improve lives and change the poverty levels of the people; train the young ones to be gainfully employed by using the resources available in the communities. Also commit yourselves to utilizing the items to make more money to expand your businesses”, he said.
The CAPECS Director announced that the Project would support the recipients’ business development plans, provide training to them to formalizing their businesses through recording keeping to the hope to grow their businesses.
He said the project would provide master tailors and weavers to come and retrain the beneficiaries, while it would introduce the Village Saving and Loan schemes to help mobilise local resources to support growth and bring about cohesion and peaceful co-existence in the communities.