Minister for Youth Development and Empowerment, George Opare-Addo, has announced plans to review the sanitation module under the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) as part of a broader assessment of the agency’s programmes.

Speaking during an interview on Channel One TV’s The Point of View with Bernard Avle, the Minister said the review would begin following the swearing-in of the new YEA Board on Wednesday, May 7.

“The Board will be sworn in on Wednesday, May 7. One of the key things I will tell the board to review immediately is to review all the modules under the YEA to assess the impact, to see how best these programmes have impacted.”

He revealed that the agency currently has no contract with waste management firm Zoomlion, which previously partnered with YEA on the sanitation initiative.

“Currently there’s no contract with Zoomlion, we’ll asses sanitation module impact so far as to whether to maintain what we still have. But we will open up the tender, so that other people can also tender, which I can guarantee.”

According to Opare-Addo, future tenders will be conducted on a regional basis, allowing stakeholders across all 16 regions to participate in the bidding process.

“It will be done on a regional basis so that the tender will be done on all 16 regions,” he said.

The Parliamentary Committee on Sanitation has urged the government to retain Zoomlion’s contract with the Youth Employment Agency (YEA).