By Felix Khanoba
Determined to ensure the successful implementation of of the Innovation Development and Effectiveness in the Acquisition of Skills (IDEAS) project, the Federal Ministry of Education in collaboration with the World Bank, has organised a two-day workshop on the scheme.
The workshop, which took place in Ekiti State, attracted Monitoring and Evaluation Officers as well as Innovation Grant Officers from six participating states of Ekiti, Benue, Edo, Abia, Gombe and Kano.
A statement issued by the Federal Ministry of Education, which was made available to The AUTHORITY in Abuja, said the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, who spoke at the event, reinterated the importance of monitoring and evaluation towards achieving the required objective of the project.
Represented by the Director, Technology and Science Education (DTSE), Mrs Elizabeth Adedigba, the minister stressed that the training workshop provides Monitoring and Evaluation Officers the opportunity to better their capacity to effectively implement relevant activities across all the four-project component.
Speaking further, Adamu emphasized that the training was meant to achieve the sole aim of strengthening, monitoring and evaluation capacity in the management of IDEAS project.
Earlier in her welcome address, the Ekiti State Commissioner for Education, Dr(Mrs) Kofoworola Olabisi Olabimpe Adeyire, represented by Hon Olukayode Babade (Chairman Board for Technical and Vocational Education ) Ekiti State, commended the Federal Ministry of Education and the World Bank for organising the workshop in Ekiti State.
Babade further lauded the World Bank for the recent fund mobilization released to benefitting states and the attendant clearance of the Institutional Development plans of Technical Colleges in Ekiti State.
She also appreciated the endorsement of the Grant Agreement Forms for benefitting Technical Colleges.
According to her, training of M and E Officers was key to the successful implementation of the projects, which will undoubtedly enhance the judicious use of the project fund, better project tracking and consistent attainment of project development objectives.
She advised all the monitoring and evaluation officers to avail themselves of the golden opportunity to tap adequate knowledge that would make them perform optimally and display dexterity in their project beats, adding that this was the only way the project objectives could be fully achieved.
