The Aig-Imoukhuede Foundation has successfully trained 101 public servants through the AIG Public Leaders Programme (PLP), to further improve their deliveries at workplaces.
The feat was part of the foundation’s overarching commitment to train over 30,000 public servants over the next three decades.
The PLP, offered by the Foundation in partnership with the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government, is an executive 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.
The Chairman of the Foundation, Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, 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 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 participants, hoping they would use learnings from the programme to accomplish remarkable feats in their respective ministries, departments and agencies.
