Accra, Feb.17,GNA – Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF) Ghana has partnered the World University Service of Canada (WUSC) to train twenty-five women in labour rights.
The women who benefited from the WILDAF/WUSC’s Innovation in Non-Traditional Vocational Education and Skills Training (INVEST) Project, were selected from institutions in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET).
The project aims to reduce gender specific barriers for women’s participation in economic growth, equality and non-discrimination to enhance access to decent work for women inclusion in high-growth and non-traditional sectors.
Madam Diana Ndego, representative of WUSC, said, WUSC Ghana INVEST Programme’s Rationale for Labour Rights Education was
designed to promote equal rights and decent work opportunities for young women.
The INVEST Project is a five year project (2020-2025) funded by Global Affairs Canada and implemented by WUSC.
Madam Ndego said, the INVEST Programme’s Rationale for Labour Rights Education was designed to promote equal rights and decent work opportunities for young women by using an Inclusive Market Systems (IMS) approach, institutions and the labour market system of high-growth sectors to achieve transformative change that would be sustainable and scalable.
She said INVEST had collaborated with WILDAF as the legal aid and a leading women’s rights and law organisation in Ghana to train industry associations, TVET training providers and CSOs on gender, human and labour rights approaches for integrating labour and gender equality rights in the service.
The training outcomes include scaling up the low levels of knowledge on women’s labour rights among responsibility-holders, employers, industry partners, training providers and rights-holders and related legal rights for women in the workplace.
She added that INVEST would enhance the access to decent work for marginalised young women (rights holders) in high-growth, non-traditional sectors and support Ghana’s human rights commitment to address labour rights.
WUSC Ghana had directly targeted 5000 urban poor young women between the ages of 18-35 in the three largest urban areas in Ghana; Accra, Kumasi and Takoradi.
The project will test and scale up innovative, sustainable models to improve the enabling environment, reduce gender-specific barriers to women’s economic participation, and enhance access to decent work for marginalised women in high-growth and non-traditional sectors, she added.
She said WUSC Ghana INVEST Programme’s rationale for Labour Rights Education would address the issue of women labour rights infringements which were perpetuated due to lack of awareness of their rights or an inability to enforce them, contributing to the creation of a negative workplace experiences for women such as sexual harassment and other forms of gender-based violence.
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