The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has launched its LearnFest Lecture Series, a platform for continuous learning among staff and oil and gas industry stakeholders. This initiative is under the Nigerian Content Academy (NCA), a specialised knowledge-sharing and training arm of the agency. The LearnFest Lecture Series aims to provide trainings on the mandate and inner workings of the Board.
The three-hour event, attended by all staff at the corporate headquarters in Yenagoa, focused on raising awareness of the different directorates of the organisation, their constituent divisions and departments, as well as their specific responsibilities and how they function individually and collectively to advance corporate goals and objectives.
According to the Academy, NCDMB’s knowledge is spread across seven directorates, each with its own mandate, processes, expertise, responsibilities, and way of creating value. The Academy added that knowledge becomes more powerful when it does not exist in silos but moves from one department to the other with handshakes of different units.
The Director, Capacity Building Directorate, Abayomi Bamidele, stated that the LearnFest Lecture Series was informed by the need to create an understanding of Nigerian Content tools and processes among staff and other oil and gas industry stakeholders. Industry players need to understand and interpret the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development (NOGICD) Act, 2010, operational principles, and other guidelines.
LearnFest will hold monthly for the next nine months, with a specific Directorate featured in each edition. Attendance, online and in-person, is mandatory for all staff of the NCDMB, while other oil and gas industry stakeholders could participate in subsequent editions. The Management of the Board has approved the use of the Board’s purpose-built facility in Opolo as a centre for the NCA training programmes.
In the first presentation under the Lecture Series, the Manager, Planning and Policy Development Department, Mofe Megbele, spoke on the theme “Understanding the Activities and Processes of the Planning, Research and Statistics Directorate.” The presentation covered various subheadings, including Operating Framework for Planning Research and Statistics (PRS) and Overview of Planning and Policy Development Department (PPD).
Industry operators and service companies, industry associations, academic institutions, and ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), have expressed interest in sending their staff for the specialised training provided by the NCA. The Lecture Series is a way of preparing the grounds for its take-off, and those attending the event are expected to give feedback on the suitability of resource persons for the said roles.
Key points
- The NCDMB's LearnFest Lecture Series aims to enhance staff capacity and knowledge-sharing among oil and gas industry stakeholders.
- The series will run for nine months, featuring a specific Directorate each month.
- The NCA is building a faculty, and the Lecture Series is a step towards its take-off.
