Job Creation Bureau organizes capacity building workshop for staff

The Delta State Job and Wealth Creation Bureau has organized a two-day capacity building workshop on institutional development for members of staff of the bureau with a call on them to harness lessons learned to enhance effective service delivery to the State.

The Chief Job and Wealth Creation Officer, Prof Eric Eboh, made the call in his remark during the opening session of the first series of the capacity building workshop held in the Conference Hall of the bureau in Asaba.

The workshop was attended by the Political Aides to the Governor on Job/Wealth Creation and the Senior Management Civil Servants in the bureau.

Prof Eric harped on the importance of the workshop, pointing out that it was designed to set the right foundation for the newly established bureau and to create an appropriate corporate brand and adequate enlightenment, orientation and streamlining of staff in tune with the demands of the bureau as established by the Law of the State.

According to him, “The workshop will build the right block for the future for the sustainability of the bureau. The capacity building workshop series would enhance DS-JWCB organizational approaches, strengthen workshop milieu and improve the capabilities of staff for greater organizational performance and impact.”  

He affirmed that the job creation programmes have lived up to stakeholders’ expectations since 2015, adding that a total of 5,074 youths has been trained in various agricultural and vocational skills and have started-up as entrepreneurs and business owners. 

He also said that the relevance, quality and integrity of the programme implementation process elicited stakeholders’ interest to make the programmes continuous by institutionalizing the job creation office through a legal framework backed by the State House Assembly.

“It was reasoned that the way to ensure continuity was to institutionalize the Office of the Chief Job Creation Officer by means of a legal framework duly enacted by the Delta State House of Assembly. After due consideration, the Executive Bill was passed into law on the 22nd of August, 2019 and was assented to by the His Excellency, the Governor on the 5th of September, 2019. In line with statutory requirement, the Gazette of the Law was published as Law No 11 of 2019 on the 12th of September, 2019 as Gazette Vol. 29 No 37, 2019,” he narrated.

He listed some of the functions of the bureau to include- to design, plan and execute job and wealth creation programmes; to facilitate, organize and provide capacity building  and specialist services for job and wealth creation; to ensure that job creation and employment opportunities are fairly distributed in accordance with State quota/character among others.                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

 The lectures, “Overview of Strategic Planning” was delivered on the first day while “Overview of Project Cycle Management” would be delivered on day two of the workshop by the Resource Person, Dr Ben Arikpo.

 

By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-Uteh