We want to build professional capacity in development sector – Nwodo Jr

The Knowledge exchange Centre, as part of its direct response to the huge knowledge gap existing in the field of development policy and social studies, has awarded the 2017/18 Scholarship to Onwuchekwa Obiora Obasi which is the second in the series.

The scholarship programme according to Charles Nwodo Jnr, chairman, KEC Board of Trustees, is to contribute actively to knowledge and simultaneously increase employability skills of the scholarship beneficiaries directly and other young people indirectly for the overall greater social impact of the youth of Nigeria and the West Africa sub-region.

Nwodo, while speaking at the award presentation in Lagos, said the Knowledge Exchange Centre Annual Scholarship Award provides full scholarship for the Executive Masters in Development Policies and Practices (DPP) Programme at the Graduate Institute of the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

According to him, “This programme provides strategic analysis tools useful in a large segment of sectoral and cultural study areas and enhances the capacity of participants as thought leaders and innovation champions in the public and not for profit sectors of the global arena”.

“Participants in the programme are kept small, and pooled from all the regions of the world in a highly competitive selection process. It is therefore, a great privilege to be selected for the DPP programme and KEC is honoured to partner with the Graduate Institute for the scholarship award,” he said.

He congratulated Onwuchekwa Obiora Obasi for emerging tops in the highly competitive selection process, adding that he look forward with great expectation to the completion of the DPP programme by him and the deployment of the knowledge and enhanced capacity from the programme to the advancement of the course of socio-economic development of the country and sub-region under the auspices of the KEC.

Maria Glover, executive secretary, KEC observes that Nigeria and Africa at large suffer from poor implementation of sound and sustainable policies that support and foster growth and development.

According to her, “There is the need to implement sound and sustainable policies that will address many of our socioeconomic and infrastructural challenges and bring about the change Nigeria and millions of Nigerians deserve”.

 

KELECHI EWUZIE