Course Description
This one-day training course provides public officers with a practical overview of Public Sector Financial Management, focusing on current rules, regulations, and best practices. It covers key areas such as budgeting, revenue collection, payments, internal control, audit, and accountability mechanisms. The course also highlights recent developments in public financial management, including e-payment, e-payroll, and ethical standards, enabling participants to manage public funds effectively, transparently, and in compliance with established financial frameworks.
Course Objectives
The objectives of the course are to enable participants to:
- • understand the latest updated rules and regulations of Public Sector Financial Management.
- • understand the importance of the implications of Public Sector Financial Management.
- • recognise the new challenges of Public Sector Financial Management.
- • develop a good understanding of internal control/audit, collecting revenue and disbursement of funds.
Course Description
Tender procedures and evaluation are regular events in the life of an organisation. Procurement of goods and services require a clear approach to tendering and their evaluation. This course is designed to provide officers involved in tender preparation and evaluation tools and techniques to perform in a more standard approach and ensure that the process is followed properly. The course will cover the following:
- • Objectives of procurement
- • Procurement planning
- • Bidding process
- • Bidding documents
- • Integrity in Procurement
- • Bidding document- Evaluation criteria
- • Bid Evaluation Principle
- • Bid Evaluation Methodology
- • Bid Evaluation Report
- • Debriefing Unsuccessful Bidders
- • Contract management
Course Objectives
The objectives of the course are to enable participants to:
- • Understand the stages in contracting for goods and services.
- • Articulate with the steps and procedures relevant to tender preparation.
- • Understand the tender evaluation approaches and reporting.
- • Understand the reasons and modes of debriefing unsuccessful bidders.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- • Recognize the contracting stages from setting the scope of work to awarding the contract.
- • Evaluate, in-depth, the process of preparing tenders and selecting potential suppliers.
- • Identify the issues involved in assessing tenders for quality as well as value for money including e-Auction.
- • Apply several approaches to bid evaluation using criteria, weights and scoring measures
Course Description
No one can control and manage risk fully, indeed knowing what do before, during, and after an event will mitigate the damage. Identifying potential risks and integrating it part of daily operation is a must nowadays. Preparedness and safety should be the first priorities as to whether you are in the private or public organisation, the reality of risks and hazards are omnipresent. Through our Risk Management training, participants will be made aware of hazards and risk they didn’t realize were around their workplace. Identification of risks through proper procedures will provide participants the ability to prevent accidents before they occur and mitigating these risks, which if not tackle rightly at the right time, could cause a disruption in operation and even, bring about a chaos.
Course Objectives
The objectives of the course are to enable participants to:
- • understand the fundamentals principles of Risk Management.
- • understand the Risk Management Framework.
- • effectively identify business risks and risks factors.
- • implement risk controls and mitigation techniques.
- • understand financial implications associated with risks and,
- • develop a risk response/mitigation plan (including budgeting)
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- • Explain various models and mechanisms of corporate governance and business ethics.
- • Recognize the shareholder/stakeholder rights and responsibilities.
- • Understand how the board of directors and management perform and the lines of demarcations.
- • Understand the role of sub committees and how they enforce corporate governance.
- • Analyze the corporate scandals and derive lessons.
- • Develop an approach to be ethical at all times and uphold the ethical values of the organisation.
Course Description
This one-day course introduces participants to the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the transformative impact of disruptive technologies on businesses, industries, and society. The course provides a high-level overview of current AI capabilities, emerging technologies, and practical applications across different sectors. Designed for professionals and decision-makers, the course combines theoretical insights with real-world case studies and group discussions to stimulate strategic thinking and innovation.
Course Objectives
The objectives of the course are to enable participants to:
- • Understand the evolution of information technology and disruptive technologies.
- • Gain insights into various disruptive technologies including AI, Robotics, IoT, 3D printing, Virtual Reality, and Blockchain.
- • Explore the applications of AI in different sectors such as healthcare, agriculture, and education.
- • Understand the intellectual property implications of AI-generated content.
- • Recognize the importance of security and privacy in the context of AI.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- • Understand the stages of IT evolution from the 80s to 2022.
- • Define AI and provide examples of its applications.
- • Explain the significance of Robotics, IoT, 3D printing, Virtual Reality, and Blockchain in disruptive technologies.
- • Analyse security and privacy concerns associated with AI technologies.
- • Implement AI proof of concepts within the Sandbox Framework.
Course Description
Today most organisations require people with IT skills and Microsoft Excel is a tool which is commonly used for records or basic interpretations of data. IT is becoming an essential tool in many organisations which help to enable the performance of employees. Moreover, Microsoft Excel is necessary in most work environment and help businesses to manage, track and analyse organisation’s data. This Advanced Microsoft Excel course has been designed to enable participants to learn Excel as tool to be used in to their daily operations. The course will cover the following:
• Advanced formula
• Chart layout/Styles
• Formatting/Protecting Worksheet
• Pivot Tables
• VLookup
• Formatting a Pivot table
Course Objectives
The objectives of the course are to enable participants to:
- • create and format a worksheet;
- • manage and edit workbooks;
- • use advanced formula while working with Excel;
- • create and use charts/pivot tables to interpret data;
- • use Excel with other program;
- • apply VLookup.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- • apply formulas in their day-today work;
- • articulate with excel as a tool for operations in the workplace;
- • create, format and feed data on a worksheet;
- • use/edit/copy formulas in the worksheet;
- • create charts and pivot tables for interpretation of data;
- • use Excel with other programmes;
- • use VLookup.