Dakar, Dec 18 (APS) – Seventy-four young territorial economic developers (JDET), trained in territorial economic development professions with a view to strengthening local authorities with qualified human resources, received their certificate on Wednesday, noted the APS.
The training was initiated by the Senegalese Association for Support of Decentralization and Citizen Initiatives (ASADIC-TAATAAN), in partnership with the National Local Development Program (PNDL) and the support of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
“The TAATAAN group initiated this process with a view to creating a pool of qualified human resources to support local communities,” said the president of this non-governmental organization, Oumar Wade.
He spoke during a workshop to present the results and capitalize on the experience of the project to support local development initiatives, carried out within the framework of the National Local Development Program (PNDL), in partnership with the structure that he directs.
At the end of this one-day workshop, 74 young people from various municipalities in Senegal received their training certificates.
According to the president of ASADIC-TAATAAN, local economic development is based on three essential pillars: technical devices, financial resources and, above all, human resources.
Present at the meeting, Cheikh Abdou Lô, president of TAATAAN-Académie, stressed that quality human resources are the key to all other aspects of territorial development.
“As long as we do not have these qualified human resources, discussions around decentralization, local development or land use planning will remain in vain,” he said.
He thus called for strengthening the skills of the 74 young people trained, so that they become a pool of human resources capable of contributing, in the years to come, to making Senegal a fully decentralized country, thanks to development based on its terroirs.
Especially since, like the great democracies, it has engaged in a process of decentralization to reposition local authorities as centers of impetus for endogenous development dynamics.
The secretary general of the National Local Development Program (PNDL), Pape Alioune Koné, who chaired the event, declared that he was counting on the recipients ”to give meaning to the concept of decentralization”.
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