In order for its workforce to offer quality and acceptable commission projects to the benefiting states/communities, the National Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (N-HYPPADEC) has started a programme of refresher training.
This information was provided by Alhaji Abubakar Yelwa, MD of N-HYPPADEC, on Monday in Minna during the opening of a four-day workshop for the commission’s middle and senior management staff.
“I anticipate that the training we received will help us with project management, ethics, risk management, and assessment.
“And also through stakeholders’ engagement and management, project management and execution, collaboration and teamwork, monitoring and evaluation,” he continued.
Yelwa, a trainee herself, claimed that the commission’s management team was not sufficiently involved in projects, which is why they needed refresher training to help them perform at their best.
He revealed that the course will give the personnel a better understanding of project management as well as management of the different beneficiaries of the commission’s programmes.
“There is a need for proper management, because without that, the commission will not be able to deliver quality projects to the benefiting states/communities while collaborating with the contractors,” he stated.
The MD stated that one of the commission’s primary duties was to develop, organise, and carry out initiatives for the regions impacted by the operations of the hydroelectric power dams.
According to him, the commission was founded by the federal government to address ecological issues and support the socioeconomic development of the states and people in the nation that are impacted by hydroelectric dams.
In order to assist the commission in carrying out its duty, Yelwa asked the participants to take the training seriously.
The vice chancellor of Usman Danfodiyo University in Sokoto, Prof. Suleiman Bilbis, who led a group of facilitators to the training, agreed that it was important to refresh the staff of the commission’s staff’s memory in order to assure service delivery.
According to Bilbis, the action will educate the commission’s staff on how to handle the contractors, projects, and beneficiaries.
An earlier statement made by Mr. Haruna Gabi, Director of Finance and Administration at N-HYPPADEC, noted the commission’s notable successes in fostering socioeconomic development in the communities within its purview.
But he added that the commission’s history needed to be examined in order to look into potential areas for improvement and that “this project management workshop is a good way to start.”
The 10 states that will benefit from the HYPPADEC intervention activities are Niger, Kogi, Kwara, Benue, Kebbi, Plateau, Taraba, Gombe, Kaduna, and Nasarawa, according to OBASANJO NEWS24.
