NSCC Commences International Workshop for 40 Master Trainers on Model Citizens Centres, Care quality assurance and certification in Nigeria..
ORU Leonard
The National Senior Citizens Centre (NSCC), on Tuesday commenced International Workshop for 40 Master for 40 Master Trainers on Model Citizens Centres, Care quality assurance and certification in Nigeria.
The 3 day workshop which holds between August 16 – 19, 2023 is aimed at enhancing appropriate Human Resource Capacities and care quality assurance in line with its strategic Roadmap and National Plan of Action on Ageing, the National Senior citizens Center (NSCC), has commenced a 3-day international workshop for 40 Master Trainers.
The workshop also intends to benchmark statements and standardized guidelines on models of senior centers, programs and environmental designs, core competencies in administration and initiating multi-generational community ecosystem, as well as, care quality assurance, with entrepreneurship skill incorporated.
At the opening ceremony, the Director General of the NSCC, Dr. Emem Omokaro, said the objectives was to train a national pool of trainers to be deployed for cascading training programs where needed on setting up and equipping model centers and care quality evaluation, develop benchmark statements and standard guidelines for establishment and administration of active Senior Centers, identify core competencies and care care quality evaluation, develop benchmark statements and standard guidelines for establishment and administration of active Senior Centers, identify core competencies and care core values, and establish care quality evaluation procedures and processes.
She also noted that the NSCC considers the international workshop a very essential preliminary part towards breaking through into capital projects and activities regarding establishments of active senior centers and other domiciliary facilities as well as mapping critical steps in ensuring care quality certification.
She said “NSCC believes that human resource capacity development is pivotal to ascertaining the priority objectives to set the methodology and infrastructure needed for effective delivering and measurements of targets.
“This Master Trainers Workshop is an offshoot of the long operating partnership of the Division of Inclusive Social Development (DISD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, New York,with NSCC-Nigeria, which successfully operationalized the National Policy on Ageing.
“With the National Action Plan on Ageing and project activity implementation document and support for this Master trainers workshop, our partnership has considerably moved our plan of work further along”.
Omokaro noted that the overview of the workshop agenda under the thematic priority area of livelihoods, health and social care, building of active senior centers for recreation, initiation of livelihood, work schemes for income security and social programs, provision of supportive services as well as counseling, learning and continuing engagement opportunities to promote the wellbeing and enjoyment of Senior citizens are cardinal.
These programs, she said, are woven into an ecosystem that enables social inclusion and active participation of senior citizens as both recipients and resource persons, adding that the programs and standard facilities are to be replicated by States and Local governments.
Participants were chosen from three categories namely; NSCC National Stakeholder Consultative forum on Ageing – the Vice Chairs/ focal persons on Health and Social Care from 27 States and FCT; experts and practitioners in the field of health and social care within local communities and government personnel involved in ageing policy planning and implementation in the Fed Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and the National Senior Citizens Center.
