Dr Fred Kyei Asamoah, Executive Director of COTVET, said the Council for Technical and Vocational Training (COTVET) is playing a leading role in the implementation of the project.

Dr Asamoah made the revelation at a stakeholder's working session on Greening Technical and Vocational Training (TVET) in Accra, which was attended by representatives from academia a well as experts in technical educational and training.

Dr Asamoah said Greening TVET has imperatives as Environmental, Social, Economic and Political, and have become very critical in today's world.

He said globally strong emphasis is being placed on equipping learners with competitive skills to achieve the expected human capital for development and countries all over the world are turning to TVET to achieve this objective in an environmentally friendly manner.

"It has become necessary for Ghana to train its learners via the green TVET continuum and skilled human resources to serve as the key drivers of the economy," Dr Asamoah said adding that this would make available to the industry, highly skilled human resources to serve as the key drivers of the economy.

He said the government has initiated steps to address the need for a functional TVET delivery system by approving a five-year strategic plan to transform Technical, Vocational Education, and Training.

Consequently, measures such as skills gap analysis and audit, as well as the greening TVET for sustainable development have been adopted in the TVET transformational agenda.

He said one of the major factors in achieving a quality TVET system is to develop a strong collaboration with industry.

"We have reached a stage in our developmental agenda where industry must be encouraged to be part of the process of training their next users. We can only do this by greening TVET and engaging our industry players so that they can contribute significantly to the development of our TVET sector in Ghana," he added.

Mr Samuel Thompson, Coordinator, Policy and Planning for COTVET, said government is working on a new National Greening Policy for TVET education, which aims to integrate the sustainability of the greening plan into the existing curriculum and training. 

He said the strategy seeks to embed environment-related contents and green skills in the curriculum and training; and teachers and trainers are progressively equipped with competencies they need to deliver relevant content across disciplines or in a specific area of competence 

Mr Thompson said the greening TVET is a method to transform the TVET institutions and create robust TVET sector in the country.

He said developing greening TVET champions would help provide environmentally friendly economy for the people.