Name: Nafissa Dia
Company: Senegal Ministry of Economy, Finance, and Preparation
Functional Title: Head of the Environmental Matters Division
Country: Senegal
Training course joined: Private Sector Advancement program with PFTP
Nafissa Dia is Head of the Environmental Affairs Division at the Senegal Ministry of Economy, Financing, and Preparation. She took a program on Economic sector Development organized by the Public Money and Profession Programme (PFTP) at UNITAR.
Nafissa’s history is in International Business. She mosted likely to the International Institution of Administration in Dakar where she researched economics, commerce, and administration.
She started her career in Public Management in Senegal at the Ministry of Commerce, where she was dealing with concerns of intellectual property. She additionally took on issues of worldwide teamwork between Senegal and Oriental countries at the Ministry of Collaboration.
She later went to Canada to operate in public management, and then returned to Senegal where she began her occupation in private industry growth with the Ministry of Business Economics and Financing.
She took UNITAR’s private sector growth program to strengthen her skills: “I was new at the job, and although I was experienced, I thought to myself that I might reinforce my capacity, and discover to develop actions to assist the private sector.”
The course covered the basics of economic sector advancement, and examined what the demands of the private sector were: “They put us in groups … We brainstormed with each other and produced an idea-bank with ideas on how we could strengthen our economic sectors. Then we generated a final record with all of our concepts.” She discovered the collective element of the course especially improving: “Sharing the expertise and experiences was extremely useful.”
“We were from many different countries”, Nafissa remembers. The diversity of the participants caused some especially enlightening discussions: “We found that our countries had comparable requirements, and the exact same barriers and troubles.” She additionally understood that nothing occurs in a vacuum: “We found out that we can not just think about our own nation. In West Africa we are a neighborhood of countries. Learning about the goals of other nations aided us to find out our concerns, we can’t establish our private sector simply for us.”
She states it is essential to always keep an eye on the larger picture:
“We wish to establish it within an area context, in a worldwide context, so it is necessary to understand what issues various other nations are facing with private sector development, to much better concentrate our reform and our politics.”
She rejoiced that she can transfer her understanding to her work: “The training course wasn’t just academic, it had sensible applications also, it’s straight in line with my day-to-day jobs at the workplace.”
“Private sector development is an interest for me … Before I was a lot more curious about government and copyright, but economic sector growth is a lot more concentrated, and much more sensible too, we’re assisting to develop jobs, to advance the economic situation, the results are a lot more visible at this degree. It’s ended up being a genuine passion of mine and I wish to continue to work in this area.”