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View Skills Build Africa: Reimagining TVET for the Continent's Future — Session 4: Closing the Gender Gap in Technical Trades
18 days ago

Skills Build Africa: Reimagining TVET for the Continent's Future — Session 4: Closing the Gender Gap in Technical Trades

Session 4: Closing the Gender Gap in Technical Trades Moderated by Ing. Bismark Otoo, MEng, BSc, GhIE — Air Traffic Safety Engineer, Ghana Civil Aviation Authority. Speaker: Ms. Nakakande Hadijah — Technical Principal, TVET Expert and Champion for Green Skills, Youth Development and Women's Empowerment. Technical trades remain among the most male-dominated fields on the continent, and the same barriers keep rural youth and persons with disabilities out of the workshop. This session looks at what actually shifts participation, from recruitment and workshop culture to retention and placement, and what training institutions can put in place now. 8 September 2026, 2:00PM (GMT) · 4:00PM (SAST) · 3:00PM (WAT) · 5:00PM (EAT). Duration: 90 minutes.

View Skills Build Africa: Reimagining TVET for the Continent's Future — Session 3 Digital & Green Skills for Tomorrow's Jobs
about 2 months ago

Skills Build Africa: Reimagining TVET for the Continent's Future — Session 3 Digital & Green Skills for Tomorrow's Jobs

Digital & Green Skills for Tomorrow's Jobs Moderated by Ing. Bismark Otoo, MEng, BSc, GhIE — Air Traffic Safety Engineer, Ghana Civil Aviation Authority. Speakers: Joyline Chepkirui — Digital Transformation Coordinator, State Department for TVET / Digital Learning TVET Trainer. Anne Kamonjo — Head of the Greening TVET and Climate Change Unit, State Department for TVET, Kenya. The energy transition and digital economy are creating jobs faster than training systems can fill them. This session identifies where the opportunities are emerging, and how technical education can move quickly enough to meet them. 25 August 2026, 2:00PM (GMT) · 4:00PM (SAST) · 3:00PM (WAT) · 5:00PM (EAT). Duration: 90 minutes.

View Skills Build Africa: Reimagining TVET for the Continent's Future — Session 2 Why TVET? Skills as Africa's Economic Engine
about 2 months ago

Skills Build Africa: Reimagining TVET for the Continent's Future — Session 2 Why TVET? Skills as Africa's Economic Engine

Why TVET? Skills as Africa's Economic Engine Moderated by Ing. Bismark Otoo, MEng, BSc, GhIE — Air Traffic Safety Engineer, Ghana Civil Aviation Authority. Speaker: Zephaniah Tsado — Educator and TVET Advocate. Technical skills are not a fallback — they are the engine of the continent's economy. This session makes the economic and social case for TVET as a first-choice career pathway, and asks what it takes to prepare young Africans for the future of work. 11 August 2026, 2:00PM (GMT) · 4:00PM (SAST) · 3:00PM (WAT) · 5:00PM (EAT). Duration: 90 minutes.

View Engineering Workplace Readiness: Professional Conduct & Communication
about 2 months ago

Engineering Workplace Readiness: Professional Conduct & Communication

A qualification proves you can do the work. It doesn't prove you can be trusted to do it. Every engineering organisation has technically excellent people who are operationally dangerous — the technician who conceals a mistake to avoid blame, the supervisor who signs an inspection record for work they never witnessed, the team that has normalised a shortcut because nothing has gone wrong yet. None of that is a skills gap. It's the gap between holding a technical qualification and practising as a professional, and it's where service delivery, safety and public trust are actually lost. Session 1 works that gap directly. It separates technical competence from professional workplace competence, marks where compliance ends and ethics begins, and sets out the three pillars of ethical decision-making — duty, consequence and character. It then takes on the uncomfortable reality that good people make mistakes inside badly designed systems: the Swiss cheese model of causation, the normalisation of deviance, and a just-culture matrix that separates human error from at-risk behaviour, reckless behaviour and deliberate misconduct — each with a different correct response. The second half turns principle into protocol: raising a concern with professional language templates, filtering an unclear or unsafe instruction, reporting a mistake, closed-loop communication, shift handover, confidentiality, the boundaries of your own competence, psychological safety, and stop-work authority. Two full incident case studies — pressure to bypass, and the normalised shortcut — plus six live audience votes run throughout. Session 1 — Building a Future-Ready Technical Workforce Series Duration: 120 Minutes (including interactive Q&A and live polling) By the end of this session, you'll be able to: Distinguish technical competence from professional workplace competence, and explain why a qualification grants entry while conduct determines whether the work can be trusted. Classify a workplace behaviour under a just-culture framework — human error, at-risk, reckless, deliberate — and apply the correct system response rather than defaulting to blame. Raise a concern, decline an unsafe instruction, report your own mistake and hand over a shift using professional language and closed-loop protocols that hold up under operational pressure. Presented by a senior learning and development practitioner in the water sector — registered HR professional, assessor and moderator. This session is CPD Validated, live or on demand. A certificate is issued on completion.

View 2025 ECSA Engineeering Week - Day 1
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about 1 year ago

2025 ECSA Engineeering Week - Day 1

Experience Day 1 of the 2025 Engineering Week in Botswana — the inauguration day that set the stage for a week of innovation, collaboration, and professional insight. This free on‑demand stream captures the opening keynote addresses, strategic discussions, and high‑profile remarks that formally launched the event. Hear from engineering leaders and policymakers as they explore the future of engineering in Botswana and the region, share perspectives on driving sustainable growth, and highlight the role of engineering excellence in national development. Watch, learn, and be inspired by the ideas, ambitions, and commitments that opened Engineering Week and shaped the conversations that followed throughout the rest of the conference.

View 2025 ECSA Engineering Week - Day 2
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about 1 year ago

2025 ECSA Engineering Week - Day 2

Experience Day 2 of the 2025 Engineering Week in Botswana! This livestream features all keynote addresses, panel discussions, and interactive sessions from the day, led by industry experts, leading engineers, and innovators shaping the future of engineering in the region. Explore emerging trends, groundbreaking projects, and professional insights as you celebrate the achievements driving the sector forward. Earn 2 CPD points upon completion while watching, learning, and engaging with the ideas powering innovation and excellence in engineering today.