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Institutional Capacity: ECOWAS Trains Stakeholders on Technical, Vocational Education

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Institutional Capacity: ECOWAS Trains Stakeholders on Technical, Vocational Education

By Maryam Muhammad 

The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, has organised a training workshop on strengthening national institutional capacity for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, TVET stakeholders in Conakry, Guinea.

The Workshop was organised through its Directorate of Education, Science, and Culture.

In a statement on the ECOWAS Website, the group noted that the important initiative is aimed at strengthening the institutional and operational capacities of key national actors involved in the technical and vocational education and training, TVET sector, with the objectives:

“To provide specialised capacity-building training to relevant stakeholders to promote effective, sustainable, and results-oriented management practices; To improve the quality and relevance of education and training within TVET institutions; To promote transparent, inclusive, and participatory governance and management systems across all TVET institutions.”

The capacity-building pThe programme is part of ECOWAS’s ongoing commitment to strengthen and modernise training systems across the region, with the aim of better aligning them with socio-economic development priorities, while fostering employability, innovation, entrepreneurship, and inclusive growth across all member states.