Ghana
Capacity Building on Skills Anticipation in the Tourism and Hospitality sector
The SKILL-Up Programme is supporting the national TVET system to better develop the skills needed in the country’s labour market.
Ghana’s TVET system faces the challenge to fully satisfy the current labour market demand for skilled workers. The lack of suitably qualified candidates is the main reason why employers do not fill vacant posts. In a changing world of work, and in view of the country’s medium/long-term plans for economic transformation, addressing this challenge is a priority.
During the last week of February, the ILO organized a workshop on skills anticipation to provide members of the Sector Skills Bodies (SSBs) in the tourism and hospitality sector with an understanding of quantitative and qualitative methods, tools for skill needs anticipation and matching supply and demand of skills on the labour market.
The workshop allowed participants to:
The workshop was held from February 24 – 25, 2020 as part of the SKILL-Up Programme in Ghana, an ILO project funded by the Norwegian government, aiming to support the national TVET system to better develop the skills needed in the country’s labour market.
During the last week of February, the ILO organized a workshop on skills anticipation to provide members of the Sector Skills Bodies (SSBs) in the tourism and hospitality sector with an understanding of quantitative and qualitative methods, tools for skill needs anticipation and matching supply and demand of skills on the labour market.
The workshop allowed participants to:
- Develop a good understanding of drivers of change that impact the skills demand, reasons, and impacts of labour market imbalances;
- Discuss the main objectives, and stakeholders of identification and anticipation of skill needs;
- Understand the principles and approaches for skills needs anticipation and
- Analyze different tools, select a tool for their use and draft a plan for its implementation.
- Identify key activities that will facilitate effective programming and project implementation.
The workshop was held from February 24 – 25, 2020 as part of the SKILL-Up Programme in Ghana, an ILO project funded by the Norwegian government, aiming to support the national TVET system to better develop the skills needed in the country’s labour market.