2022: T-TEL Celebrates 2 Years Anniversary on July 7

The Independent Commission on Aid Impact (ICAI)’s country report on UK aid to Ghana, published in February 2020, found that T-TEL’s work on teacher training was the UK Government funded intervention in Ghana judged ‘most likely to be sustained’ due to its strong performance on institutional strengthening and “strong signals that practice in Colleges of Education has changed.”

With this credible platform established the programme team with the guidance of the then Minister of Education, Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh and key educationists, explored options to keep this work going after the FCDO programme ended.

Through discussions with the Ministry of Education and international donor agencies, the organisation’s founders identified the need for a competent, highly skilled Ghanaian Technical Assistance provider to assist the education system to articulate and achieve its policy goals. It was agreed that T-TEL was positioned to fill this gap within the Ghanaian education sector.

The Mastercard Foundation agreed to explore the potential for future partnership and with this encouragement, a group of 15 subscribers came together to develop T-TEL’s constitution, vision, mission and guiding principles.

These subscribers all have a strong commitment to improving the quality and relevance of learning outcomes across Ghana’s education system. Their commitment and dedication ensured that T-TEL was formally registered in July 2020.

Currently, most large-scale TA programmes in Ghana involve international organisations that, whilst most of their employees may be Ghanaian, have leadership structures and processes based outside of the country.

The aspiration to provide genuinely Ghanaian competition for these international organisations, using contextual expertise, understanding and rootedness to provide high-quality services which deliver results and represent value for money is the driving force behind T-TEL.