The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has stressed its determination to collaborate with the Ghana Technical and Vocational Training Services (GTVETS) and other key partners, to deliver a responsive and robust technical and vocational training in the country.
It has observed that youth unemployment and underemployment persist in Ghana, largely due to a growing mismatch between the skills taught in schools and those demanded by the job market, particularly in areas of technical and vocational training.
According to the UNICEF, barriers like insufficient technical and soft skills, limited access to training and literacy gaps, inadequate public and private sector partnership, gender inequality, and lack of career guidance - incentives to innovate, entrepreneurial skills, the white-collar centric education, etc, continue to hinder young people from securing meaningful employment.
The Country Representative of UNICEF, Osama Makkawi, who mentioned these indicated that addressing the challenges required a strong and well-structured Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) system that could deliver skills that young people needed to succeed.
