Egypt’s NIGSD concludes the activities of the 1st week of the 2nd edition of the African Women Leaders Program

The National Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (NIGSD), the training arm of the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development, concluded the activities of the first week of the second edition of the African Women Leaders Training Program for more than 100 African women leaders in senior management positions, in cooperation with the Egyptian Agency for Partnership for Development, an arm of the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The African Women Leaders Training Program aims to support the efforts of African countries in implementing Africa's Agenda 2063 as a key partner in the program.Dr. Hala El-Said, Minister of Planning and Economic Development and Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Institute asserted that the follow-up to the launch of the training program in its second version stems from the Ministry and the Institute's keenness to support capacity building internally and regionally, and even support the empowerment of African women in light of Egypt's important role in implementing the African Agenda 2063 and its supportive role in Support and support its African brothers.El-Said also indicated the Egyptian government's keenness to actively contribute to the development efforts in the African continent, as a priority since Egypt was president of the African Union in 2019, and in support of the Egyptian efforts to invest in the human element and build African cadres as a basis for the progress and renaissance of the continent.El-Said explained that the program is being implemented this year through virtual education technology and with a wider geographical coverage due to the circumstances of the Corona pandemic.For her part, Dr. Sherifa El-Sherif, Executive Director of the National Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, explained that the program aims for the participation of more than 100 women leaders in senior management positions from one of the following ministries or their affiliated bodies in sisterly African countries such as the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Environment. Their work relates to the file of sustainable development. El-Sherif pointed out that the first week of the program included several lectures on issues of sustainability on the road to development, empowering women for the sustainable development agenda, a discussion session on education and sustainable development issues, as well as the principles of good governance, governance applications, and the necessities of governance to achieve the goals of sustainable development.
Lectures also discuss the topic of the African Peer Review Mechanism and Africa's Agenda 2063 from policies to applications, localization of sustainable development goals, and the initiative to promote the achievement of sustainable development goals in Morocco was presented, in addition to discussing the topic of mobilizing efforts to combat corruption in Ghana.El-Sherif pointed out that a group of lecturers from several countries on the African continent participated in the first week of the training program.