Ministers To Undergo Training
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
By IGNATIUS SSUUNA
Tuesday, 29 August 2006
The government has signed a 5-year Memorandum of Understanding with William Davidson, a learning business institute at the University of Michigan to provide leadership training to Ministers, The New Times has learnt.
According to details of the contract, other department heads will also join the ministers for the training scheduled to start September 4 at the Rwandan Institute of Administration and Management (RIAM).
And, contacted yesterday the Minister of Labour and Public Service Prof. Manasseh Nshuti, said the training will help create economic prosperity and develop a Western-style collegiate business school in which Rwandans will do most of the teaching in the long run.
“The trainees will make efforts to pass on the acquired knowledge to others so that the skills spread throughout the country,” Nshuti said on phone August 28.
He added: “For the beginning, about 60 to 100 will be sent to RIAM. After the first batch, others will follow.”
Nshuti said the country is stressing the importance of team building by identifying workers who lack skills to enrol for training.
“The training will also help the country build her internal administration capacity and improve smooth management,” Nshuti said.
He said the government is committed on developing a more efficient and effective workforce that will transform the country to meet her 2020 mission.
Meanwhile, sources say the Executive Director of the Davidson Institute Mr Robert Kennedy, has made various visits to Rwanda in the past to hammer out details of the 5-year MoU, which also accommodates MBA students at the university’s Stephen Ross School of Business in specific research projects in Rwanda.
They added that experts from the institute will soon visit Rwanda to organise the first in a series of programmes on good leadership administration, strategy and finance for the government leaders in all sectors.
Twelve years after the genocide in which about one million people were killed and the economy paralysed, Rwanda targets to become a shining model of good economic development policies on the continent.
Rwanda’s stated goal is to become a middle-class nation by 2020
