Latest update April 10th, 2025 12:07 AM
Hinterland Regions benefiting from 100,000-Euro business education project
Leaders in the indigenous communities of Regions Eight and Nine have been strategically targeted for edification in the area of business education. This move is being driven by an Education for Advancement Project being implemented by Youth Challenge Guyana (YCG), a Non-Governmental Organisation, with funding from the European Union valued
YCG Executive Director, Dmitri Nicholson
at 100,000 Euros.
The intent, according to YCG’s Executive Director, Dmitri Nicholson, is one designed to help the leaders, including Toshaos and Village Councillors, to develop understanding and needful aptitude to ensure that they can manage ‘their own communities’ affairs.
The leaders of these communities, Nicholson disclosed, are often tasked with the responsibility of looking at different types of contracts that are executed and there have been instances when they did not necessarily have the wherewithal to engage such actions.
“We want to make sure that they have those types of things – the skills and the tools – that are required to define projects themselves, since if they don’t have the skills there is a likelihood of poorly defined projects that cannot be properly executed.”
The business education advancement venture is one that is also expected to help reverse the unsophisticated nature of the elections of leaders in the hinterland Regions of the country with a view of not only ensuring that elected leaders are qualified to manage their respective communities, but that they are supported by equally qualified persons.
Moreover, it is anticipated that the services delivered to these Regions are of a high standard and that they are also managed at a high and improved standard.
The Education for Advancement Project was introduced in the target Regions in January 2011. With EU funding, it was designed to continue for three years, with this year being the final year, whereby participants undergo intense training.
A total of 43 residents, including Toshaos and young individuals, with an interest in leadership at the community level, have been exposed to the innovative project.
“What the training has done so far is provide training to these individuals in areas ranging from administrative skills to record keeping, they are even being afforded training in Finance Management which will enable them to improve the way they operate in their communities,” said a vocal Nicholson recently.
The strategic project, according to him, was offered in light of the fact that tertiary level education is difficult to come by in the hinterland communities.
“So us taking this type of career-type learning to these communities is a real boost to many of the residents there, particularly, the young people, the Toshaos and the Councillors,” Nicholson asserted.
The crucial training is undertaken by resource personnel from YCG, and according to Nicholson, the participants are furnished with manuals to aid the training process. Added to this, they are exposed to face-to-face sessions with facilitators who assist them through different modules from which they complete village-based assignments which are critically reviewed with a view to ensuring that the participants are gaining the requisite knowledge.
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