NIGSD organizes a webinar entitled "Crisis Management"

The Network for Training Institutes of Management in Africa (TNMIA), at the National Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (NIGSD) - the training arm of the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development, organized an online webinar entitled "Crisis Management".On the sidelines of the webinar, Dr. Sherifa Sharif, Executive Director of the National Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (NIGSD) announced the launch of the “She is a Digital Future” initiative in Arabic at the level of Africa, which the institute is implementing in cooperation with CISCO and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).The online training program is held interactively for 12 days, 3 hours per day. The training program aims to develop and strengthen the capabilities of African women to bridge the digital divide, develop knowledge of sustainable development goals, financial inclusion, and gender mainstreaming.Sherif indicated that the conditions for participating in the initiative include the age of the candidate not be less than 30 years and not more than 55 years, adding that after the end of the program, the trainees will receive an accredited and documented certificate from the National Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, as well as from the Network for Training Institutes of Management in Africa (TNMIA).For her part, Dr. Hanan Rizk, Director of the African Development Center and Head of the Training Network for Management Institutes in Africa (Tanmia), explained that the objectives of the webinar are to familiarize participants with crisis management, apply the different stages of crisis management, in addition to appreciating the importance of crisis management in our daily lives.Rizk indicated that 39 participants from the countries of South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, Algeria, Sierra Leone, Mali, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, and some other African countries and Egypt participated in the webinar. Graduates of training programs at the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development from Egypt also participated.Rizk added that the presentation points in the webinar included the definition of the crisis, the difference between the crisis and other overlapping concepts, the stages of the crisis, the definition, and importance of crisis management, the stages of crisis management, crisis management strategies, and the requirements of the stages of effective crisis management.



 Rizk pointed out that the main point of the discussion is about how to manage any crisis in the continent of Africa according to the proactive crisis management model, and thus reduce dependence on the interactive model, which represents the main framework for crisis response.Dr. Mahmoud Zakaria Mahmoud, lecturer in the Political and Economic Department and Vice President of the Nile Basin Studies Center at the Faculty of Higher African Studies - Cairo University, lectured in the webinar.