NVTI CEO named amongst top 10 CEOs

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI) Mrs Mawusi Awity has been named amongst the top ten CEOs in Ghana 2019, by the State Enterprise Commission.
Within just over two years of taking the reins of affairs at the institute, the CEO of National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI) Mrs Mawusi Awity has brought massive palpable transformation.
With a mission to provide demand-driven employment-worthy skills and enhance the income-generating capacities of basic school and secondary school leavers by employing competency-based apprenticeship, master craftsmanship, testing and career development, the NVTI, under the leadership of Mrs Awity, has undergone steady transformation.
Since Mrs Awity took over, a great deal of attention has been shifted to the institute, with more opportunities being given to girls to take vocational and technical education seriously.
Game changer in gender empowerment
Mrs Mawusi Awity’s approach to gender empowerment is not the regular one we know about; The recently appointed CEO comes with a deliberate agenda to tackle unemployment and reduce gender disparity.
She has introduced innovative strategies to engage females in male dominated skills, such as plumbing, electrical, leather works, welding. Etc.
Her leadership brought into fruition an office dictated to gender empowerment; with a (Designated Gender Officer) set to roll out more innovative programmes targeted at females in a quest to enhance their capacities to contribute to national development.
Special programmes for returnees migrants
Meanwhile, the National Vocational Training Institute has rolled out a (training) programme in eleven (11) skill areas targeted at the Returnees from the Diaspora and Potential Migrants of which some of the employees of the former defunct banks also benefited.
The (Institute) provided free skills training to the employees in a variety of programmes with support from some of its Donor Partners.
The programme is set to provide Start-Up Kits to the graduates to enable them go into Self-employment after graduation.
Already, a number of the targeted group have already (graduated from the training programme) and have benefited tremendously from the programme. The graduates are now on attachment.
NVTI believes that a skilled nation will not have a burden of unemployment. It would therefore be of great stride for the government to consider supporting NVTI to provide skill training to former employees of the defunct banks and those engaging in galamsey to go into self-employment.
This is amongst one of the many innovations by the new Executive Director Mrs. Mawusi Awity.
The programme seeks to extend its roots to other European countries soon.
NVTI is on an audacious path to change the phase of skill training and apprenticeship in Ghana.
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