As a community of Young Female Leaders we applaud the NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING COMMISSION (NDPC)-GHANA for recognizing the essence of diverse and inclusive perspectives in designing the Human Capital Development Strategy of Ghana. The provision made and platform provided for not only young people but young women and girls to play a key role in national consultations like these can only be commended. We are very proud of you Jacinta Dzagli for representing the thoughts and perspectives of our community excellently💯. We look forward to seeing these strategies effectively implemented for the betterment of all. #EmpoweredSTEMnists #Youthperspectivesonnationaldevelopment #HumanCapitalDevelopment
YoLe Fellow'23|| Quantity Surveyor|| Women and Girls Rights Advocate || Pan Africanist|| STEMNIST|| TheALI West African Caucus, Vice President|| Founder of Mission Queens Girl Up Ghana.
𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐖𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐬 𝐆𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬? 𝐀 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐚'𝐬 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 I had the immense pleasure of representing Mission Queens Girl Up Ghana at an all important national stakeholders’ engagement workshop for the development of Ghana's Human Capital Development Strategy. This strategy is to focus on enhancing skills across the sectors to align with future job market demands and foster sustainable growth through early childhood development. It seeks to address low productivity, ultimately contributing to sustainable national development. The Working Group comprised of experts from both public and private sectors with a keen lens on Youth groups, Women and Girls and Persons with disability. I found this a very rare opportunity and acknowledged the privileged spot I sat in- the chance to contribute my community’s perspective to this national discussion. After a focused briefing from NDPC providing the framework for this strategy, we proceeded to make input. While the discussions centered on the hows, the whos and the whys- I personally was of an entirely divergent opinion which narrowed on the “where” My submission was simple, hinging on these three questions: “Where are we coming from as #GHANAIANS?” “Where do we stand now as #GHANAIANS?” “Where are we headed as #GHANAIANS?” This should really be the starting point,because then it trickles down into everything else: our educational curriculum and its guiding policies, the kind of health system that needs to be effected, the training needed for the youth to thrive, the form of children development needed and the entire system overhaul needed to sustain these. Ghanaians need a defining moment where we agree and collectively work towards a common agenda. The Long Term National Development Perspective Framework- Ghana’s Vision has been launched but I dare say for a minority fraction of Ghanaians. Meanwhile this status-quo is more of lack of priority rather than lack of capacity because we have reached every ordinary Ghanaian before- case in point is when COVID broke out, the Ghanaian sleeping on the streets knew about COVID. Why can this not be the case for our National Vision? Where every Ghanaian is aware of that unseen feature that binds us. We make examples of China, Singapore, Rwanda and the way they evolved into their current admirable status. All these countries at a point had a pause, reflection and a national reset before opening up globally. Through inclusive stakeholder engagement, the NDPC is committed to ensuring that diverse perspectives inform and strengthen this important strategy. However we need to remember as GHANAIANS that we are one nation, one people with a common destiny. On the construction site when taking levels we are told: when it gets blurry adjust the focus and now more than ever that is what we need to do as GHANAIANS. #YouthPerspectiveForNationalDevelopment
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