Ghana: GRIDCo Targets 40% Women Workforce By 2030

Ghana’s power transmission company, GRIDCo, has set a target to achieve about 40 per cent of women being part of its core business by 2030.

To achieve this target, GRIDCo says it has collaborated with USAID, through the Engendering Utilities Programme, and designed tailored interventions that will help to grow the number of women in their technology space.

The company is also collaborating with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) College of Engineering and contributing to its endowment fund to support the training and development of fresh engineers with an emphasis on the training of female engineers.

The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo), Ing Ebenezer Kofi Essienyi disclosed this in a speech read on his behalf by Mr Daniel Amartey, an advisor to the CEO, at the Women in Energy Conference last Week.

The 4th Women in Energy Transition, which was held in Accra, the capital of Ghana, attracted women in energy from both public and private sector institutions.

It was under the theme ‘Energy Transition: Prospects for Women in Energy’.

The GRIDCo CEO said the company is fully aware of the input and impact of women being on its engineering and operations business and would, therefore, do everything possible to increase their numbers in the organisation.

He noted that at the inception of GRIDCo, there were a limited number of women who were involved in the core business of the company.

However, after fourteen years in operation, the number of female staff has changed significantly, and women are engaged in almost every sphere of GRIDCo’s operations.

The country’s energy sector, in the past, was male dominated but the last three decades have witnessed appreciable growth in the number of women permeating the sector.

Source: https://energynewsafrica.com