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Nineteen(19) policy practitioners from the Federal Republic of Nigeria take part in the fellowship program 'Strengthening Rural Community Development: Policy and Strategy (Nigeria) - the 1st Year Course' to be held in Seongnam, Korea, from October 20 to November 4, 2016. Entrusted by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), the Korea Institute for Rural Development(KIRD) as the implementer of the program formulated the fellowship program. The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the key Nigerian authority, as well as nine(9) state governments, send their policy practitioners, commissioners and administrators to the program.
The Program, one of the KOICA's multi-year country fellowship program to be carried out from 2016 to 2018, aims to help strengthen the capacity of high- and middle-level policy practitioners in strategic planning and implementation for promoting agricultural and rural development of Nigeria. While enlightening the value and role of agriculture and rural development in the globalized world, the program will help developing capacity for projecting strategies, making policies and planning investment for promoting agriculture and rural development in the country.
The focus of the fellowship course this year's 1st course will be placed on helping middle-level policy practitioners, state commissioners and administrators to develop capacity for projecting policies and strategies, making investment program, and budgeting and implementing projects for promoting agricultural and rural development by sharing development experiences of Korea's rural community development movement(Saemaul Undong) in the 1970s and 1980s. Accounting for the Nigeria's development governance in which the state governments takes charge an essential role and responsibility under the policy guidance of the federal government, in particular, development policy making and implementation practice and skills based on mutual cooperation and role sharing between the federal government and the state government will be highlighted.
The professional program this year consists of lectures, case studies and discussions on important issues of common interests among the participants as well as Korea’s experience in those issues, and study visits on the sites in the related areas. A series of field visits closely related to the lectures and case studies in the classroom will be arranged including some public organizations, farmers' cooperative, agro-industrial rural park, and rural village including the Saemaul Undong Central Training Center(SMU) and the Rural Development Administration(RDA).
The program will add an extra dimension by including some cultural program for deepening mutual understanding and building partnership among the participants and between Nigeria and Korea.
An internet space for dialogue among the fellows and participants of the fellowship program is spared for mutual communications and information sharing. Please visit the KIRD website addressed http://kird2.cafe24.com/bizdemo19081/en/05/02.php.
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