National Youth Service (NYS) Embarks On Follow-up And Monitoring Exercise Of Batch Three Corps Members

The National Youth Service, NYS in collaboration with the Ministry of Youth Affairs, MoYA, with funding from the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, UNFPA, has embarked on the 2021 first quarter followup and monitoring exercise of Batch Three of NYS Corps Members. The Followup and monitoring exercise according to the Research, Monitoring and Evaluation, RM&E Director Tenneh Kuteh, is geared towards ascertaining whether the Corps Members recently deployed are engaged in tangible assignments. Furthermore, the followup exercise according to the RME Director aims to monitor corps members Primary Assignment, we want to know what corps members have been doing about their Primary Assignments since their deployment in early February, Director Tenneh opined. The Primary Assignment is the first post a Corps Member takes up. Corps Members are posted to work with employers who have indicated an interest in having such graduates work for them. The Executive Director of NYS, Onanah Jalloh has often admonished development partners and Corps employers on the need for transparency when it comes to deployment, the deployment of Corps Members is transparent, credible and devoid of ethnic or political bias, as anything that falls short of these values will erode the confidence of the public in the programme, said Mr Jalloh. Me Jalloh further to note that NYS has always worked hard to ensure a balance in the deployment of corps members, at NYS we take everything into consideration when deploying our corps. We look at gender and districts of origin. Corps Members are deployed in compliance with Section 35 of the NYS Act, the NYS ED boasted. According to Onanah Jalloh, deployment follow-up and monitoring are very important especially since the legal framework and Roadmap that brought the NYS into existence stressed the implementation of the Youth Service Scheme and recommended its Proper Implementation of the Scheme. The Roadmap mandates the Directorate to always dispatch its personnel to verify if corps members deployed are giving active assignments. Selected members of staff from MoYA and NYS have been dispatched across the country to carry out the followup and monitoring exercise. The whole process is being led by Madam Tenneh M. Kutteh, the Director of Research Monitoring and Evaluation.