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Socio-economic Data And Skill Assessment

BCG and affiliates have been implementing consultancies that develops, supports, and assists effective skills development, especially in the TVET systems. With nearly nine years of experience in shaping and maintaining effective systems that meet industry and labor market needs, BCG has implemented the following projects.

Project	Country	Description	Duration
Skills Demand and Employment Market Analysis	Sierra Leone	The Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Coalition sought to identify skills that are most likely to be in demand and compares them against the current supply of skills training in order to recognize gaps between demand and supply. BCG was engaged in assessing the workforce skills and competencies in selected occupational areas (i.e., mining, construction, manufacturing, health, WASH, energy and agriculture and fisheries sectors) to act as a point of reference to assist policymakers, training and education providers, both for the purposes of providing evidence-based analysis on the training and skills development requirements and curriculum development to better align their programmes according to the existing needs of the labour market.	02/2021 – 06/2021
Skills Gap Assessment of Technical and Vocational Education	Liberia	The concerns expressed by employers about the lack of adequately trained technical college graduates and feel that educational institutions under TVET are not producing graduates with skills that match the needs of the industry. BCG was engaged in conducting a skills gap analysis to identify the current demand and supply of skilled labour in the main productive sectors (i.e., agriculture, mining and tourism), acknowledged as priority sectors in the National Export Strategy. These sectors include. The analysis was intended to provide the Government of Sierra Leone with evidence-based data that would enable it to make strategic choices on the priority skills for focus and where job creation is optimally expected.	10/2020 – 12/2020
Gap Analysis of Care Project	Ghana	The CARE Project, which seeks to reduce the risk of forced labor and other violations of labor rights for youth working within Ghana’s cocoa supply chain, targets vulnerable youth with an integrated package of interventions designed to improve the economic participation of youth and improve business practices by private sector actors to protect against forced labor and other violations of labor rights. CARE Project operates in four municipal/district assemblies. BCG was contracted to conduct a gap analysis for the project.	07/2020 – 09/2020
Bridging the IT Skills Gap	Gambia	There has been a talent shortage in computing, machine learning, data science, software engineering and cybersecurity in Africa, and companies have been scrambling to ensure that employees brush up on the latest skills and technologies that facilitate business agility. It is against this background that BCG was engaged to conduct an assessment of the sources, nature and size of these skills gaps in the IT sector by examining existing IT skills among respective workforces and comparing them to the skills currently and likely to be demanded by employees, educators and IT professionals.	03/2019 – 05/2019
Skill Need and Gap Analysis	Burkina Faso	During the last decade, the demand for skilled manpower in the country has increased enormously and resulted in extended gaps considering the fragmented supply side. The challenges in the value chain further tend to increase and lead to gaps within key sectors, such as machining, welding & cutting, fitting, fabrication & assembly, design, service, quality, instrumentation and calibration, maintenance, etc.). BCG was engaged in conducting skill need and gap analysis for the priority sectors within the MENA technical and vocational education sector.	08/2019 – 11/2019
Skill Need and Gap Analysis of the Manufacturing Sector	Ghana	MoTI sought to create a high impact by supporting the development of relevant demand-driven manufacturing sector skills (with a focus on agro-agribusiness, automobile and textile industries) with a high potential for employment. MoTI engaged BCG to conduct skills need assessment and labor market study to ensure that the skills needs within the manufacturing sector are adequately diagnosed for the appropriate prescriptions.	04/2018 – 07/2018
Assessment of Skills and Knowledge Gap in Building Energy Efficiency Sector	Togo	There is a need to support these initiatives with skills and knowledge, both among the in-service professionals working in the energy efficiency sector and individuals proceeding out from the educational system, which sets in the need to review the taught programs in secondary and tertiary technical high schools, as well as in universities. There is also a need to review and benchmark the skills of in-service professionals. In line with this requirement, this project addresses the competency gap required to implement energy efficiency projects in the residential building sector by determining the skill and knowledge gap and identifying means to fill this gap. The objective of this study is to make a contextual assessment of skills and knowledge gaps among professionals working in the energy efficiency (buildings) sector and in the educational programs that train these professionals. BCG was engaged to conduct skills and knowledge gap assessments in the building energy efficiency sector.	10/2018 – 12/2018
Development of TVET Curriculum	Somalia	The Government of Somalia is relatively new having been formed in 2015 and beset by other challenges and priorities such as need for security with diminished capacity to initiate required TVET training standard for private and public providers. There is a need to support the development of a quality competency-based TVET curricula to fill in the current identified gap in delivery of standardized TVET training. BCG was engaged to develop appropriate TVET curricula (with training modules) for the four core TVET courses.	10/2018 – 12/2018
Skills Gap and Needs Analysis on Digital Technology Relating to TVET Marketing and Management	Gambia	The “Jobs, Skills and Finance Programme” in The Gambia focused on improving the relevance, effectiveness, and accessibility of vocational and technical training to improve employability and job creation using digital technology. The target beneficiaries are youth and women in the Gambia, with an overall objective of equipping them with market-led skills to enhance employability, inclusiveness, and sustainable development. Boabad was engaged in assessing the skills gap and needs analysis on digital technology relating to TVET marketing and management.	08/2017 – 12/2017
Skills Gap Analysis of Technical Universities	Sierra Leone	Despite the commitment of the government to make TVET education relevant to national development at the technical university level, it appears there is a huge gap in terms of the manpower with the requisite skills and knowledge required and what is currently available within the technical universities. BCG was engaged in conducting an assessment of skills and knowledge gaps of technical universities and how these can affect their quest to deliver on their mandate.	05/2017 – 08/2017
Development of a TVET Policy	Gambia	To reinforce the TVET system in the country through the implementation of the Youth Empowerment through TVET project in the Gambia to create an enabling environment that will give young people, especially girls, a better chance of finding decent employment by providing them with lifelong learning opportunities as recommended by SDGs 4 and 8, Boabab was engaged to develop a TVET policy, which will provide a national TVET framework with clear directions on established linkages between TVET and pre-vocational delivery, general education, tertiary and higher education, labour market needs and quality service delivery.	10/2017 – 12/2017
Skills Needs and Gap Assessment	Ghana	The Agricultural Productivity Technology Centre (APTC) at CSIR-CRI is a one-stop technology center to co-ordinate the institute’s technology generation activities and package them in forms that can be made accessible to the industry through technology acquisition, capacity building and information flow. APTC is funded by the Skills Development Fund (SDF) as part of its technology transfer initiative. The vision of the centre is to transfer crop production & management technologies to the crop-producing sub-sector. To establish APTC, the contract of implementation was signed 9th of March, 2016, with funding from the SDF. Making the centre functional requires adequate resources in terms equipment and human resource with the required competence. To understand the current state of resources within the CSIR-CRI to be leverage on by the centre, there was the need to undertake institutional needs assessment to identify the gaps in terms of equipment, machinery, human capacity and training needs. This was the basis of this work which was a critical component for the funding arrangement in establishing the centre. BCG was contracted by the Crop Research Institute of CSIR to conduct the needs assessment.	05/2016 – 07/2016

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