UNCTAD/TrainForTrade Port Training Programme Delivery of Module 4 in Calabar

​From 22-26 February, 20 middle managers from the port communities of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) who are enrolled in the UNCTAD TrainForTrade Port Training Programme will participate in the 4th of eight training modules.    

 

The module will be delivered by port experts from Dublin Port Company (DPC) and Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA), together with NPA senior managers who have been certified by TrainForTrade as local trainers. This strategy promotes South-South cooperation, as well as networking and exchange of best practices among member ports of the programme.  

 

Module 4 of the Modern Port Management Course examines the future challenges to ports which focuses on the main functions of commercial ports in the third millennium.

 

Nigeria is currently on the 1st cycle of the UNCTAD TrainForTrade Port Training Programme. Each training cycle lasts 16 to 24 months and comprises 240 hours of in-class training and a final thesis. The deliveries are both led by UNCTAD and international instructors (Irish port experts), as well as local senior managers who have completed the training- of-trainers workshop. This strategy  highlights the uniqueness and strength of the TrainForTrade Port Training Programme in fostering local ownership to reinforce the training's impact and ensure its sustainability. Local ownership of the programme is achieved through a financing scheme that requires the participating ports to provide the majority of the programme's funds, and by gradually shifting responsibility for implementing the programme from UNCTAD to the participating ports.