Gov’t signs MoU with GIZ Ghana to develop Technical, Vocational Education and Training

Dr Fred Asamoah and Mr Detlev Jahn Axel holding the MoU document

As part of efforts by the government of Ghana to ensure that every young person acquires relevant skills, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between the Ministry of Education (MOE) through the Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET) and GIZ Ghana for the continuous cooperation within the Technical, Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Component of the Programme for Sustainable Economic Development (PSED) which implements the Ghana Skills Development Initiative (GSDI IV)

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The MoU, which was signed on the 31st of August 2020, extends the partnership between the two organisations to the 30th of September 2022.

It was initialled by Dr Fred Asamoah, the Executive Director of COTVET and Mr Detlev Jahn Axel, the Head of Program for the PSED at GIZ Ghana on behalf of their respective organisations.

The major thrust of the MoU is to promote mutually beneficial cooperation between the two organizations during the implementation of the fourth phase of the Ghana Skills Development Initiative (GSDI IV), a project which is being co-funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and implemented in partnership with COTVET.

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During the signing ceremony, Dr Fred Asamoah, the Executive Director of COTVET stated that, “Inasmuch as we need to set some standards to guide our collaboration and relationship going forward, we can always be flexible to make sure that this MOU is implemented successfully, depending on the situation at every point in time.”

GSDI IV started in October 2019 and is expected to be completed by September 2022.

It aims to produce high-quality, standardised TVET to improve professional skills that meet the needs of the labour market, which is expected to promote the greater employability of young people in Ghana.

The project supports COTVET’s innovative approach to introducing competency-based training (CBT) standards and will focus more on a certain shift of interventions from the micro to the meso level with stronger support on anchoring processes for the collaborative, competency-based training model within the Ghanaian public institutions, the TVET system and the private sector.


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Ellis Ferdinand is a Journalist, Blogger and Founder of Ellis Multimedia, a parent company of EducationGhana.org, an Online Education News Blog, PoliticsGhana.com and GhanaNaija.net.Ellis Ferdinand is a Graduate of Accra College of Education and the University of Cape Coast, where he obtained a Diploma In Basic Education and a Bachelor of Education in Accounting. He is currently Reading his Master of Philosophy in Curriculum and Pedagogic Studies at the University of Education, Winneba in Ghana.Ellis Ferdinand won Blogger of the Year at the 2018 National Students’ Awards and was also adjudged 14th Best Ghanain Blogger in 2018 among the Top 50 Ghanaian Bloggers of 2018.He introduced the Concept of Education Blogging in Ghana in 2014 with his famous blog EducationGhana.net. now EducationGhana.orgHis Blog won Best Media Promoting Education in 2017, 2018 and 2019 respectively, an Award organized by Neogenics Education Consult.In 2019, He adjudged the Most Promising West African Blogger of the Year in Nigeria. He won Writer of the Year at the 2021 EDUCOM AWARDS

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