Selected staff of KAIPTC trained on Social Media Management
2nd December 2019: The Corporate Affairs Unit of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), with support from GIZ, has organized a two-day training on social media management for staff from the Unit and from all departments at the Centre. The training focused on equipping the selected individuals, who have been appointed as departmental focal persons for social media, on the usage and relevance of social media in promoting KAIPTC.
Facilitated by resource persons from Global Media Alliance (GMA), the training took participants through practical ways of optimising social media for organisational exposure and professional development, the various social media monitoring tools and the application of various new media platforms for different purposes.
Head of Corporate Affairs Unit at KAIPTC, Mrs. Rosemond Ebi-Adwo Aryeetey noted that with the introduction of KAIPTC’s new five-year strategic plan, it was critical for every staff member be a brand ambassador for the Centre, particularly in the digital space. She said stemming from the demand-driven approach adopted by the Centre to implement the plan, the training was proactively organized to strengthen the knowledge and skills of participants to become effective ambassadors and to support the visibility agenda for the Centre. She expressed gratitude to GIZ for funding the training.
On his part, the Senior Regional Advisor at GIZ, Dr. Christian Ani encouraged participants to “proactively engage with the Corporate Affairs Unit by sharing stories from their respective departments to help promote the Centre.”
After the training, participants gave their impressions of the workshop and unanimously noted that the training was very useful and practical, adding that they had received new knowledge and skills that they would immediately apply in their roles as focal persons for their departments.
For further information, please contact the Corporate Affairs Unit of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) on +233302-718200 ext 1104/1203 or +233 550 303030. You can find the KAIPTC on Facebook and twitter as: @Kaiptcgh. You can further find out more about the KAIPTC on our website: www.kaiptc.org.
About the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre:
The Ghana Ministry of Defence (MoD) established the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) in 1998 and commissioned it in 2004. The purpose was to build upon and share Ghana’s five decades of internationally acclaimed experience and competence in peace operations with other states in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) region and the rest of Africa. This was in recognition of the need for training military, police and civilian men and women to meet the changing demands of multidimensional peace operations. The Centre is one of the three (3) Peacekeeping Training Centres of Excellence mandated by the ECOWAS to offer training in peacekeeping and peace support operations (PSO) in Africa.
The Centre delivers training courses in three thematic areas; Peace Support Operations, Conflict Management and Peace and Security Studies and also runs Masters and PhD programmes in same. The KAIPTC has a world-class research department that undertakes research in the thematic areas in Peace and Security. Located in Accra, Ghana, the KAIPTC is an internationally recognised institution and has till date trained and tutored over 18,500 participants and students since its inception.
KAIPTC is a gender-sensitive organisation and committed to gender equality. Following the launch of its gender policy in 2014, the Centre has mainstreamed gender into its policies and programmes, and integrates same in its focal areas, namely training, research and postgraduate education. The Centre has developed a Sexual Harassment policy and fully oriented employees on same. It has also provided a Nursing and Childcare Centre and instituted a paternity leave policy, all with the aim to create a conducive work environment at KAIPTC.