Training your team with GEPA: cohorts, programmes and progress
Organisations can sponsor staff through GEPA Academy as a cohort, map its courses to their own training programme and see every learner's progress.
In Africa's energy sector, the engineering is taught. The judgement around it mostly is not: structuring a venture, holding a governance line under pressure, speaking to a regulator, running the team that has to deliver. Most professionals still pick that up on the job.
Through GEPA Academy, an organisation can train a group of its people together, against its own training programme, and see how they are doing.
How organisation training works
The offer is built around three things.
- Sponsored cohorts. An organisation sponsors its staff as a cohort, so a team can be trained as a group.
- Your programme, mapped. The Academy's courses are mapped to the organisation's own training programme.
- Visible progress. The organisation can see every sponsored learner's progress.
What your people will study
The courses are short and structured, built from workshops recorded with working practitioners who run ventures, advise regulators and sit on boards. Every lesson ends with a short check, so nobody finishes a course by leaving a video playing in another tab.
The catalogue spans nine focus areas. New staff can begin with energy foundations, which covers the sector's vocabulary, its structure and who does what across generation, transmission and supply.
Courses work on a phone, and an audio mode keeps the lesson without the picture, for when data costs more than time.
What you have at the end
A learner who completes a course earns a certificate issued against completed lessons and passed assessments. Each one carries a public verification link showing the learner's name, the course, the date and the status. Anyone in the organisation who needs to confirm a qualification can do so in one click, without asking the learner for a file.
Where to start
An organisation can begin with a single course, a whole track, or a conversation with the Academy about which courses fit the work its team has to do. Every course, taught from a workshop recording, is in the catalogue.