{"id":15733,"date":"2026-06-20T12:46:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/nitad-to-partner-with-iita-in-capacity-building\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:30:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:30:01","slug":"nitad-to-partner-with-iita-in-capacity-building","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/nitad-to-partner-with-iita-in-capacity-building\/","title":{"rendered":"NITAD to partner with IITA in capacity building"},"content":{"rendered":"Chairman of the\u00a0Nigerian Institute of Training and Development<\/a>\u00a0(NITAD) in Oyo State, Akin Akinpelu, visited IITA-Ibadan with his team on 3 July. The visit was to seek collaboration with\u00a0IITA<\/a>\u00a0in the area of training and development. Representatives from IITA\u2019s Capacity Development Office (CDO), Human Resource Management, and Communication Unit received the delegation at the Agriserve building.\n
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Katherine Lopez, Head of Communication, welcoming the NITAD team.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\nNITAD, an associate of\u00a0International Federation Training and Development Organisation<\/a>\u00a0(IFTDO), is a training institute with the vision to become a world-class training and development institution. One of its objectives is to collaborate with international institutions such as IITA, which is not only a research institute but is also involved in capacity building.\n\nThe areas of focus in this partnership are graduate employability in Nigeria, skill acquisition and development, and capacity building at technical and non-technical levels. Nonetheless, as an institute with the mandate to regulate the activities of learning and development in Nigeria, NITAD encouraged IITA to register with them to become a certified training institute.\n\nAkinpelu made it clear that individual trainers can also become certified and be given practicing licences, as there are two membership routes\u2014individual and corporate membership routes.\n\n\u201cWe would like to extend this opportunity to IITA members who play a role in capacity development as membership is open to anyone involved in capacity development. Any practicing individual or institute involved in capacity development but not registered with NITAD could be termed a quack,\u201d he said.\n

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IITA staff with the NITAD team.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\nHead of IITA CDO, Zainatou Sougrynoma Sore, noted that IITA is open to all kinds of training requests where it can team up with and provide the skills needed for such partners. \u201cIITA has a longstanding history in collaborating with the national agricultural research system (NARS) to bring about technologies and double the innovations of IITA and to train technicians and researchers in the national system,\u201d she said.\n\nHaving gotten an idea of possible collaboration areas, both parties decided to further examine those areas with the plan to have a follow-up meeting where decisions would be finalized.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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