CGI moves to capacitate public, private sector bosses
THE Chartered Governance and Accountants Institute of Zimbabwe (CGI) says it is working diligently to equip officials in both the public and private sectors to promote economic progress.
Governance has remained a critical issue for Zimbabwe, with the debt resolution process having recently flagged governance reforms as a major drawback to the processes.
Speaking ahead of the CGI annual conference slated for end of September in Victoria Falls, CGI chief executive officer Lovemore Gomera said they were working towards creating capacity in professionalisation of the public sector through various training programmes.
“When you look at the work that the institute has been doing over the years, you’ll find that we are actors mainly in the economic arena,” he told NewsDay Business.
“We create capacity and recently we have been involved in professionalisation of the public sector through our training and also under the auspices of International Federation of Accountants in terms of just embracing the Africa professionalisation initiative to make sure that our public personnel are professionalised.”
Gomera said the institute had trained in excess of 20 parastatals in relation to induction, governance training, risk management, ethics training, audit, among others.
“The institute is putting some efforts in answering the call of the President in 2021 that they need to work with the government as an institution in order to capacitate the personnel both in the public and private sectors,” he said.
“We are still having classes that we have and also the accelerated programme in terms of a profession itself. We also work with other institutions like the Zimbabwe Republic Police. We actually have been running courses among which will be diploma in forensic accounting, leadership and governance risk training, among others.
“We work with Zacc (Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission) on integrity training. They have their programme running for integrity committees just to make sure that we join hands in fighting corruption. So, in that regard, we are also working with the Deposit Protection Corporation in terms of the government risk and compliance diploma, together with the International Compliance Association.”
The CGI chief said the conference that aimed at contributing to Zimbabwe’s economic transformation and helping to attain vision 2030 would enable them to partake in several researches and polish up that which have been happening and continue to happen to Zimbabwe.
The conference will run under the theme: Chartered governance and accounting professionals-catalysts for economic transformation.-newsday
