ILG Holds Workshop on Leadership and Governance Challenges
ECSU’s Institute of Leadership and Good Governance (ILG) held a workshop on leadership and governance challenges to the promotion of security and development in the Horn of Africa in collaboration with Cranfield University.
Director of ILG Dr. Waqgari Negari said that the objective of the workshop was to enhance researches in the areas of good governance and development in partnership with concerned ministries and organizations towards addressing good governance and leadership challenges on a sustainable basis. “he added.
" We work with Cranfield University of Security to bring meaningful change in leadership, good governance and development related to security in the Horn of Africa”
Director of Security Sector Management at Defense Academy of the United Kingdom, Professor Ann Fitz-Gerald noted that the workshop was research based which brought many papers together which are being circulated in different Ethiopian universities.
“The most important thing is to bring together students and the future leaders with practitioners, policy makers and academicians.… We have worked a lot in Ethiopia compared with other African countries because there is the willingness here at the civil society and academic levels. There is also great institutional support and excellent cooperation from the government of Ethiopia and the security sector institution at large,” the Director remarked.
Tesfaye Belachew, Good Governance State Minister Advisor with the Ministry of Civil Service pointed out that the workshop is important because it provides opportunity to gain knowledge and strengthen the capacity of the civil service.
Various papers were presented during the two day workshop on managing globalization challenges in the context of security and development and challenges in peripheral regions, managing security in the Horn of Africa and managing transformation across the civil service, among others. Different participants drawn from state and federal institutions, UNDP, Cranfield University and ECSU were in attendance at the workshop