The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved $315 million from the International Development Association (IDA) to support job creation, skills development, and digital transformation in the country. This financing includes $200 million for the Ghana Jobs and Skills Project and an additional financing of $115 million for the eTransform Ghana Project.

The Jobs and Skills project will provide apprenticeship and entrepreneurship training to develop skills and assist apprentices with self-employment activities or help them secure employment opportunities and strengthen linkages to trade associations.

The project will also provide training, grants, entrepreneurship activities to micro and small enterprises and help establish a functioning Ghana Labour Market Information System, a public database that aims to capture information on employers and workers and provide regular data and information on the job landscape in Ghana.

The additional financing for the ongoing eTransform Ghana Project will improve the efficiency and coverage of government service delivery. Activities to be scaled up to include digitization of archives and other public records; an increase in internet bandwidth for district health centers and hospitals and other government services in 254 districts.

The project will also provide computer labs and networking for enhanced remote learning in two new universities and in 200 senior high schools located in areas that do not currently have these facilities.

Source: GNA