The Director of Policy Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Department at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), Hormame Nwagbesenu has highlighted the focus of the five-year strategic plan for KAIPTC that it seeks to enhance gender equality and social inclusion.
This also includes women and youth empowerment and fostering peace, stability and development in Africa.
She stressed the need to involve youth-related issues and revealed the numerous efforts that have been made to involve the training of youth and women in such areas.
Speaking at the five-year strategic plan launch, Miss Hormame mentioned that a new section of the strategic plan is to inject youth-related issues into the centre’s work.
She therefore said the centre has begun recruiting staff focusing on youth and women’s issues.
“So, as we speak, as part of the establishment of our women, youth, peace and security departments, we have recruited staff, specifically focusing on youth issues, and also on women’s issues to make the realities and empower women and youth to ensure their role in peace and security are harnessed and also actually seen fruitfully.”
The commandant of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, Major General Richard Addo-Jani revealed that the strategic plan will help equip key players and policymakers with the necessary tools towards the resolution and transformation of conflicts on the continent and beyond.
Highlighting the significance of the strategic plan, he added that” our new and current strategic plan 2024-2028 reflects a comprehensive and innovative approach that encompasses training, research, education, policy development, and advocacy”
The stakeholders at the centre also vowed to make good use of the strategic plan to equip and train individuals in the peacekeeping field in Ghana and beyond.
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Source: Angelina Riley Hayford/ATLFMNEWS
