By Valentine Oforo, Dodoma
THE Institute of Rural Development Planning (IRDP) has set to start rolling out two new business related courses to help molding high professionals in the country’s development planning sector.
To commence in the envisaged 2024/25 academic year at certificate and diploma levels, the new courses, Accounting and Finance Management and Information and Communication Technology (ICT), will be trained at the popular varsity in a special manner which align to development planning issues.
Introduction of the vital courses that have been blessed by the National Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (NACTVET) surfaced after the Dodoma-based varsity to conduct thorough research and established that majority of development planning experts in Tanzania are lacking knowledge and skills on ICT, as well as Accounting and Finance Management.
The IRDP's Deputy Rector, Academics, Research and Consultancy, Prof. Provident Dimoso informed this publication during an exclusive interview that the target is to ensure the to be produced experts are effectively and professionally use ICT and Accounting and Finance Management to improve performance of the country’s development planning sector.
"Rolling out of the programs seeks to quench the current market demand as most of employers have been raising concern of lacking planning experts with the necessary knowledges on the two potential components in development planning, " Prof Dimoso expressed.
Being among basic preparations ahead of dispensation of the programs, he communicated that the state-owned college has already employ the high-profile trainers to shape the prospective students who will be absorbed in the courses.
"Apart from recruiting new trainers, we have also sponsored our staffs to acquire needed knowledge from overseas in order to ensure we stand professional side to produce best experts who will cater for current demand in the country’s development planning side," he added.
Not only that, but the Don said the fast-growing varsity, mapped at the Dodoma Capital City's outskirt has so far setting up a modern clouds- connected computer lab for facilitating smooth training towards the ICT students.
The state-of-the -art lab, according to him, has been installed with a total of 165 modern wireless computers, and with different programmes in relate to ICT studies.
The IRDP's Deputy Rector, Academics, Research and Consultancy, Prof. Provident Dimoso
"We have entered into contract with the Tanzania Research Network (TERNET) to supply us with fast and reliable Internet services at the lab so as to ensure the facility runs more fruitful, " he unveiled.
Through the development, he said their side will be getting at least 1000 Megabits per second (MBPs) apart from others available internet bundle services from TTCL, ZANTEL and TIGO.
Prof Dimoso said the varsity is currently working to improve its student's admission guiding book with an eye to set criterion and qualifications which the applicants must poses in order to qualify to affiliate with new courses, among others.
Along with that, the IRDP has also introduced a special program to offer a number of different short courses meant to build the capacity of the workers from the central government, regional administration and local government, public institutions, as well as those from private entities.
The courses have specifically been designed for imparting the servants from the public and private sector with useful knowledge on how professional to execute their various daily roles.
The courses in question include preparation of strategy planning, corporate social responsibility, preparation and supervision of budgets, monitoring and evaluation of projects, and cost and benefit analysis in projects.
Others are including feasibility studies in projects and preparation of documents for strategic projects, risk management, population planning and land use planning.
Also, during 2022/23 academic year IRDP managed also to introduced other new courses in efforts to spur its performance, which are Urban and Regional Planning (URP), Geomatics, Human Resource Management and Environmental Health.
"Together with that, during last academic year we managed to review a total of five curriculum, including Bachelor Degree in Business Planning and Management, Bachelor Degree in Planning and Community Development, Bachelor Degree in Population and Development Planning, and Bachelor Degree in Project Planning and Management," Prof Dimoso insisted.
The Institute of Rural Development Planning (IRDP) is a corporate body established by the Parliamentary Act No. 8 of 1980s.
This Act provides a legal framework for the Institute to be established as an important national centre for provision of training, research and consultancy services in the field of rural development planning and management with main objective of alleviating qualitative and quantitative shortage of skilled manpower within the framework of sustainable capacity building directed towards reducing poverty and attaining sustainable development.
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