The well-being of every staff/student/apprentice is very crucial to the productivity of his/her organisation. Thus as part of the obligation of the Ghana Skills Development Initiative, we organised a workshop dubbed: Mainstreaming Health and Wellbeing into Schools and Apprenceship Training in Northern Ghana.

In addition to an information meeting, two days workshop for Training Providers and two days workshop for Trade Associations, a public health screening took place in a TVET school in Tamale.

The Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET) with support from the Ghana Skills Development Initiative (GSDI) has  developed a Gender Strategy to govern the operations of TVET in the Council and its stakeholders.

On 10th March 2014 GSDI in cooperation with GIZ's "Employee Wellbeing Programme (EWP)" organised an information meeting in Tamale.

From March 24 until 28, 2014 the Ghana Skills Development Initiative (GSDI) performed a training for teaching staff in Accra. National and international trainers conducted a workshop on modern teaching approaches and Competency-Based-Training (CBT) to further develop the capacities of teachers, trainers and facilitators.

10 Trade Associations with 22 participants, mainly TA presidents and executives, attended a strategic planning workshop from 24th – 27th March.

A school management training took place from 17th to 20th March 2014 in Dodowa. The German facilitator Inke Hase and the Ghanaian expert Dr. Ahmed Jinapor conducted a work shop for heads, principals and administrators of the 17 pilot schools participating in the activities of the Ghana Skills Development Initiative.

Maintenance Management Workshop for TA Training Coordinators of Trade Associations 

The Ghana Skills Development Initiative (GSDI) organized a 3-days Maintenance Workshop for Training Coordinators of the selected Trade Associations in the three regions Volta, Greater Accra and Northern region.

Workshop Management and Maintenance

 The modernized Apprenticeship Training concept integrates training of apprentices at the Training Providers. To meet the standards set in the Occupational Standards and broken down in the Unit Specifications, Training Providers (TP) have to facilitate learning on maintenance principals and major elements. They should set a good example for the workshops in the informal industries.

The Workshop, which addressed 37 TP-Representatives intended to

Workshop to refresh and enhance knowledge and skills of Garment Teachers of the respective Training Providers (TP) from 26th of May to 6th of June 2014