Nairobi conference addresses Africa’s skills base
Some of Africa’s largest employers and most successful companies were represented at a seminar aimed at developing Africa’s skills base. The Strategic Skills Seminar for Africa 2004 took place in Nairobi Kenya on 23-24 March 2004. The event was aimed at strengthening the framework of human resources in Africa addressing the “retain” factor as the “attract” factor is tackled in the well-known Africa’s brain drain syndrome.
Nairobi conference addresses Africa’s skills base
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Some of Africa’s largest employers and most successful companies were represented at a seminar aimed at developing Africa’s skills base. The Strategic Skills Seminar for Africa 2004 took place in Nairobi Kenya on 23-24 March 2004. The event was aimed at strengthening the framework of human resources in Africa addressing the “retain” factor as the “attract” factor is tackled in the well-known Africa’s brain drain syndrome.
The seminar reviewed best practices and policies aimed at strengthening performance, productivity and employment in Africa. Well over 100 human resource practitioners as well as employers, consultants and policy makers attended the premier networking event.
The event concluded that growth that is employment intensive must be pursued to create jobs, and transfer skills and knowledge. Lifelong training is essential as is a system that incorporates incentives, standards and opportunities to link performance to promotion. Various issues around recruitment driven by tribalism, ethnicity or cronyism, training, skills, productivity, performance and labour policies were addressed.
The gathering pointed out that human resource personnel must be seen as architects not administrators and be given a higher profile in driving the productivity of their organisations and hence their nations forward.