Kofi, [BA Hons, MA (UCC), LLB (London)], Doctoral Candidate (Lincoln MY)], is the Executive Director for Eduwatch. He has over 20 years of experience in providing technical support towards institutional strengthening to public sector institutions in Ghana, including ESIs. Kofi Asare, [BA Hons, MA (UCC), LLB (London)], Doctoral Candidate (Lincoln MY)], and has worked in various capacities in Policy Support, Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), Governance and Change Management on USAID and World Bank projects, aimed at institutional strengthening in the areas of skills development, education de-centralisation and justice reforms.
As Change Management coordinator under the Ghana Case Tracking Activity, he led in reviewing institutional communication and operational/case management systems within the Ghana Police Service, the Judicial Service and the Ghana Prisons Service and provided capacity building and systems support through the development and adoption of a digital case tracking system.
As part of the Ghana Education Decentralisation Project, Kofi played key roles in producing institutional manuals and developing the operational frameworks of the then newly legislated National Teaching Council (NTC), National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA), the National Inspectorate Board (Now National Schools Inspectorate Authority), and a decentralised education framework to facilitate the decentralisation of education management within the GES. Kofi played a key role in building consensus and buy-in of the GES Council, the MoE, Regional Coordinating Councils and District Education Offices, on the institutional reform project and the conduct of nationwide change management sessions.
As a Policy Support and Communications specialist, Kofi’s role in providing technical support to the Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET), including the establishment of the Skills Development Fund 1 and 2, and the current Ghana Skills Development Fund, which have been able to raise and disburse over US$ 100 million of institutional and private sector grants to enhance skills and technology development, is worth noting. The Fund today remains the biggest Fund in the skills sector. Other areas of direct technical support were in the development of Competency Based Training Curricula, the operationalisation of the National TVET Qualification Framework, passage of the COTVET Legislative Instrument (L.I), and the development of a Voucher System for managing training grants to apprentices in the informal sector, under the Ghana TVET Voucher Project with support from the German government.
