AIG-Imoukhuede Foundation Celebrates Successful Conclusion of AIG Public Leaders Programme Residential Week
The Aig-Imoukhuede Foundation recently concluded the residential week of its landmark programme for public servants, the AIG Public Leaders Programme (PLP). The PLP, offered by the Foundation in partnership with the University of Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government, is an executive education programme that provides high-potential African public servants with the opportunity to acquire the skills needed to create cultures of excellence, effectiveness, and integrity in their organisations. The seven-week programme is delivered via synchronous and asynchronous methods with two live sessions in Abuja.
This third class of the programme,
comprising sixty-eight carefully
selected public servants working in different
government ministries, departments, and agencies were brought together for a one-week immersive and
interactive learning experience, which featured lectures, workshops, case
studies, and simulations led by the faculty from the University
of Oxford.
As part of the programme, special in-conversation sessions were
held featuring experts in the field of public policy and governance, including
Dr. Joe Abah, Country Director at DAI and former Director-General, Bureau
of Public Service Reforms; Mr Andrew
David
Adejo, Perm
Sec, Federal Ministry of Education; Professor Tunji Olaopa, incoming Chairman, Federal Civil Service
Commission; and Professor Bolaji Owasanoye SAN, Chairman, Independent Corrupt
Practices Commission.
These sessions delved into crucial issues affecting the public sector and helped
participants gain clarity on the roles they can play in the transformation of
the service.
Speaking
to participants during the week, the Chairman of the Foundation, Aigboje
Aig-Imoukhuede (CFR), stated that it was the Foundation’s mission to facilitate
the development of a public sector in Africa that is capable of providing
critical goods and services, such as healthcare and education to citizens, to enable
them live decent lives, just like in developed economies. He said that no
matter the charitable efforts of philanthropists, the only way to provide these
goods and services on a sustainable basis and have a transformative effect on
citizens, is to have a well-functioning public sector, run by capable public
servants. He encouraged programme participants to recognise the profound impact
they can have as public servants and embrace every opportunity to build a
better public sector for the benefit of the people.
In
her address, Executive Vice-Chair, Ofovwe Aig-Imoukhuede stated that the
Foundation was investing a lot to build the capacity of programme participants
and therefore she had high expectations that they would use their learnings
from the programme to accomplish remarkable feats in their respective
Ministries, Departments and Agencies. She enjoined the public servants to play the role of secret weapons embedded in
the public service to drive
transformative change from within.
The Aig-Imoukhuede Foundation has successfully trained 101 public servants through the AIG Public Leaders Programme. This achievement is part of the Foundation's overarching commitment to train over 30,000 public servants over the next three decades.
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