What's New

WAIFEM's Fellowship Development Programme Launched

WAIFEM has launched its Fellows development programmein June 2003. The Fellows Programme is the Institute's initiative under which talented senior officials involved in debt and reserves management functions are selected to undergo intensive training and professional exposure in order to attain "world-class" level of expertise in the performance of their functions. The programme was designed as a short to medium-term response to the issues of regional ownership and the availability of expertise that will be tapped on a sustainable basis for filling technical capacity gaps identified in key areas of debt and financial sector management.

For the Brochure which contains the objectives, operational modalities and management of the Fellows Development Programme

Write to The Director General, WAIFEM
waifem@linkserve.com.ng or
capacity@waifem.org

WAIFEM PARTNERSHIP WITH WORLBANK PDM.

WAIFEM has beefed up its technical competence by expanding its technical partnership with World Bank Public Debt Management (PDM)
The Institute has planned to conduct a regional workshop on modeling Risk for Sovereign Liability Portfolio from September 29, to October 3, 2003 at the Institute in Lagos Nigeria. Another Regional Seminar on Debt Strategy and Debt Sustainability is being planned for November 2003.

WAIFEM SELECTED AS A CONSULTANT TO NDDC

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is an organ of the Federal Republic of Nigeria responsible for designing and implementing the development programme for the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria.
To achieve its objective, the Commission is in the process of developing a master plan for the region. Consequently, several studies covering Agriculture, Aquaculture, Arts & Culture, Education, Social Welfare and Water & Sanitation, etc have been commissioned as part of the process of designing an integrated approach to development of the region.

An invitation was extended to WAIFEM by the co-ordinating consultant to NDDC Master Plan Messrs GTZ/Wilbahi to bid for one of the sector studies. Following a presentation made on behalf of the Institute by the Director General, Dr. Chris O. Itsede, WAIFEM was selected as the sector consultant to handle the social welfare sector study. The study has three broad objectives.

i. To determine what the realistic goals of a social welfare programme for the Niger Delta Region would be given the prevailing social, economic and cultural conditions.

ii. to identify the groups (or sub-groups) among the poor that should benefit from the programme; and

iii. To determine that most cost-effective social welfare programme for achieving the set goals.

NEW BOOK ON NIGERIAN ECONOMY LAUNCHED BY WAIFEM

A new book "Nigeria Economy Structure, Growth and Development" edited by Dr. Chris O. Itsede and Professor Milton A. Iyowa was recently published by WAIFEM. The book beams a searchlight on the Nigerian economy. In its 18 chapters, the Book succeeds in comprehensively analyzing the structure, growth and development of the Nigerian economy since 1960. Apart from looking at aggregate performance , the authors have also focused on sectoral developments and challenges..