Mr. Ernest Berko, Deputy Director of Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation (PPME), explained that the National Green Jobs Strategy aims to implement safety measures that will transition the brown way of doing things to the green world.
According to Mr. Berko, the National Green Jobs Strategy was a framework developed by the MELR in collaboration with stakeholders to minimise job losses and maximise the potential of the green and circular economy for the creation of decent green jobs in Ghana.
He noted that the main objective is to support the creation of green jobs through coherent and effective policy coordination of sectoral approaches.
He made the remarks at a workshop organised by the Ministry for Journalists on the National Green Jobs Strategy last week.
Specifically, the strategy seeks to ensure policy alignment, coherence, and coordination for the maximisation of green jobs; to develop employable skills, particularly for youth, women, and PWDs, to take advantage of existing and emerging green jobs potential; to support the creation of green jobs across sectors through the promotion of sustainable and competitive green enterprises and markets; and to mobilise and facilitate access to sustainable financing for green enterprises through inter-sectoral collaboration and cooperation.
He indicated that the implementation would be done in a harmonised manner to maximise the interrelated and complementary impact of the emanating components of the Green Ghana Green Jobs Programme.
The programme hinges on four interrelated components designed to focus on specific aspects of green job promotion in Ghana, with a focus on creating jobs for the youth, women, and the vulnerable.
The MELR is collaborating with the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) to ensure that relevant sector policies and medium-term plans are aligned with green jobs promotion strategies.
He said the move would enable the implementation agencies to drive the operationalization of the objectives through sectoral approaches and to leverage synergies among them.
The two institutions would also coordinate implementation, monitoring, and evaluation activities by all actors at national, regional, district, and local levels in collaboration with existing structures at the national and sub-national levels.
MELR would establish platforms to facilitate effective coordination of interventions.
The components of the Green Jobs Programme are Green Jobs Coordination Capacity Development Projects, Green Skills Development Projects, Green Enterprise Development Projects, Access for Green Products, and the Green Enterprise Finance Project.
The Bank of Ghana would work with financial institutions to prioritise green enterprise financing, and financial institutions would work closely with MMDAs and the private sector to finance green jobs.
Aside from that, MMDAs would also put in place measures in the local business environment for green enterprises to thrive in line with the principles of the National and Local Economic levels to enable businesses to create decent green jobs in line with Development Policy.
Also, the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) won’t complement sectoral interventions by promoting business opportunities in the green economy to attract local and foreign direct investments as well as partnerships and collaborations.
The programme is being supported by the European Union, SNV Ghana, and the ILO.
Ghana signed the Paris Agreement on climate change in 2016 and developed a national Determined Contributions framework as an indication of how it would contribute to the reduction of emissions.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
