By Valentine Oforo
THE Institute of Rural Development Planning (IRDP) has successfully managed to increase the number of its long-term programmes from 26 programmes during the 2022/23 academic year to at least 37 programmes in 2023/24 academic year, being an increase of 11 new programmes.
The impressive development so far achieved by the Dodoma-based institute with an eye to expand its academic capacity exponential was unveiled yesterday by the IRDP’s Rector, Prof Hozen Mayaya during his remarks at the institutes’ 16th convocation ceremony.
In his remarks, Prof Mayaya also detailed that during the 2022/23 academic year, the State-owned institute has also worked to review its short course programmes to make them more client-centred.
“The development had fetched the diverse impacts, including to increase the number of the short courses from nine during 2021/22 academic year to a total of 20 courses in 2022/23, but also, the number of participating institutions has also increased from 16 organizations in 2021/2022 to 92 in 2022/23, whereby there was also a significant increase of revenue from 68,880,000/-in 2021/2022 to a total of 194,097,000 in 2022/23,” Prof Mayaya detailed.
Informing over other important milestone so far achieved by the country’s reputable varsity, the IRDP’s Rector expressed that there was an important increase in the number of research and publications.
“IRDP has always been encouraging its teaching staff to conduct research and publish their articles in the reputable journals to acquire international recognition. I am hereby delighted to inform the public that our efforts have yielded fruits as three of IRDP fellows were among the 47 Tanzanian academicians who were recently recognized by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology following their publications in a highly reputable international science journals,” the Don added.
Together with that, Prof Mayaya said from research and consultancy, the IRDP in collaboration with local an international development actors has been implementing several projects, and executed consultancy works in almost every part of the country.
“Moreover, we had the Eco-Village Project in the Central Zone, Climate Change in the Northern Zone, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Project in the Lake Zone, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) in the Southern Highland and Marketing Infrastructure, Value Addition and Rural Financing Programme (MIVARF) at Mbulu district,” he informed.
Winding up his remarks, Prof Mayaya thanked the government and the Ministry of Finance, as well the development partners for continuing supporting the fast-growing varsity.
He disclosed the institutions as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), the Ministry of Education, Tanzania Education Authority (TEA), the Tanzania Commission for Universities (TCU), National Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (NACTVET) and the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) , to mention but a few.
Briefing for his side, the IRDP’s Vice Chairperson of Governing Council, CPA. Dr Samwel Werema, informed that IRDP has managed to record recommendable infrastructure development, a move that has enabled the institute to have in place a more conducive teaching and learning environment.
“For example, the Higher Education for economic Transformation (HEET) project is going to contribute a lot to the improvement of the teaching and learning in our institute in the use of environment in our institute specifically in the use of ICT,” he briefed.
The colorful event saw at least 172 students (96 males and 76 females) receiving different prizes for their exceptional performance in academic and extra-curricular activities.
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