There isn’t any doubt that efficient communication performs a pivotal position in selling peace and safety, commerce and regional integration inside the ECOWAS member states and past. The ECOWAS Fee believes that deepened regional integration begins with correct communication of its messages to the audience inside the Group and globally.
It’s in furtherance of this lofty goal that the ECOWAS Fee’s Directorate of Convention and Protocol organised a 3-day Specialised Trainings for Interpreters and Translators (STIT). The STIT, held on 4-6 November 2024, aimed to construct language and communication expertise by way of capability constructing of multilingual workers and Group residents within the specialised fields of interpretation and translation.
This system targets the youth, with skilled skilled interpreters and translators as trainers. Multilingual youth from ECOWAS member states had been chosen to obtain focused fundamental coaching in deciphering and translation. The specialised trainings provide three prospects for the trainees: working with the Group as freelance professionals; persevering with in formal coaching in tutorial establishments with ECOWAS’ monetary assist or serving as language interns inside the language part of the Directorate of Convention and Protocol.
Throughout the STIT periods, trainees obtained sensible and hands-on coaching on growing and sustaining deciphering and translating expertise. Additionally they noticed and shadowed professionals at work and practiced their deciphering and translating expertise at real-life conferences. As well as, trainees obtained associated and related steerage on making use of public talking expertise to deciphering, together with learn how to market themselves to tutorial and recruiting establishments, significantly the ECOWAS Fee.
In her closing remarks on the finish of the STIT periods, the Director in control of the Directorate of Convention and Protocol on the ECOWAS Fee, Mrs. Olukemi Robinson-Atabuh, thanked the Directorate of Human Assets, trainees and ECOWAS workers members for his or her dedication and dedication in guaranteeing the success of the coaching program.
Mrs. Olukemi Robinson-Atabuh stated, “The Specialised Trainings for Interpreters and Translators (STIT) is a part of youth empowerment and ECOWAS’ dedication in direction of regional integration and employment era. There are such a lot of potentials within the West African youth however there are not any clear pathways for profession development. We have now a task as ECOWAS to make sure that youths could make use of their potentials.”
Wanting forward in 2025, Mrs. Olukemi Robinson-Atabuh stated that the Directorate of Convention Directorate, working in collaboration with the Training Directorate, already has provisions for scholarships for younger West Africans as a approach of contributing to succession planning within the Fee. On the finish of the 3-day intensive Specialised Trainings for Interpreters and Translators (STIT), 4 trainees had been awarded certificates for efficiently finishing their coaching workout routines.
In 2024, the coaching periods ran from March until November. Two trainees have been enrolled in college diploma programs, one trainee is at present on the ECOWAS roster of Language Service Suppliers (LSPs), whereas two are members of workers being mentored for applicable profession development/upskilling choices within the ECOWAS Fee.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Financial Group of West African States (ECOWAS).