Some 372 Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) from the Agbogbloshie Timber Market and Makola Markets have benefited from a two-day PrecisionQuality™ (PQ) edutainment education programme organised through the Design & Technology Institute (DTI).
The drama-cum-academic piece titled Joe Sharp mirrors the lives, paintings, successes and screw ups of grasp crafts men and women, their courting with clients and the way they are able to decorate it thru the software of PQ™ concepts. It is a completely unique manner of education casual zone operators who've colossal competencies and capability however require refinement to churn out great services and products.
Through the drama series, DTI expects to enhance the paintings competencies and practices of 5,000 grasp crafts men and women and 1,000 SMEs. The education bureaucracy a part of DTI’s approach to paintings with key stakeholders to permit three (3) million younger people, in particular women, to get right of entry to dignified and pleasant paintings possibilities through 2030 the use of a multiplier approach.
The modern-day drama series-primarily based totally education is below the ‘Transforming youngsters TVET livelihood for sustainable jobs’ undertaking in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation’s ‘Young Africa Work (YAW) Strategy’, which seeks to create 40,000 direct and oblique paintings possibilities for the youngsters, specifically younger women, thru TVET in Ghana.
Miss Constance Swaniker, Founder and CEO of DTI, entreated the SMEs to undertake the concepts of PQ™ to increase standardized services and products to stay aggressive withinside the marketplace, specifically with the entering impact of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
“Africa has turn out to be one large marketplace, making it less complicated for African nations to alternate amongst themselves. Ghanaian groups can best thrive and develop while items and offerings produced meet across the world universal great requirements. PQ™ is the assure to obtain that,” she added.
She tasked the President of the Greater Accra Market Association to make certain that beneficiaries of the education undertake PQ™ of their paintings to supply items and offerings that meet global requirements and to steady high-paying jobs.
Since 2020, DTI has been main the motion for the adoption of PQ™ through groups to deal with the great hole amongst artisans and SMEs and standardize the procedure of manufacturing items and offerings in Ghana to advantage the economy.
Madam Mercy Naa Afrowa Needjan, President of the Greater Accra Market Association, recounseled DTI for the education programme and for deciding on the Timber and Makola Markets, which might be among the busy markets withinside the country.
She stated the marketplace changed into an area for promoting great products, and clients who patronize them want to be reputable through imparting them outstanding services and products that meet their needs. It will cross an extended manner to boom the profits tiers of SMEs and enhance their livelihoods.
“PrecisionQuality™ is to decorate the operations of SMEs to compete favourably for authorities contracts, reposition them to be aggressive at the continent with the AfCFTA in force, enhance our livelihoods and generate sales for the authorities,” she added.
She entreated all members to be open-minded and be given and undertake PQ™ strategies of their paintings to decorate their carrier transport and enhance their livelihoods.
Topics included withinside the drama protected attitude change, growing a undertaking and vision, registering your enterprise, and growing accounts.
Participants expressed their exhilaration on how the initiative has made it less complicated for them to apprehend and admire precision and great and the way it influences their profits tiers and enterprise growth. They recounseled DTI for presenting a discussion board to find out about smooth competencies and the way they are able to use the understanding to develop their enterprise.