The inaugural session of the continuing training sessions for Directors, Heads of Departments, Directors and Heads of Division of the UNIKIN Administration was held last Friday, November 18, 2021, in the Promotion Room of the University of Kinshasa.

In his welcoming remarks, the Director of Human Resources thanked the Administrative Secretary General, Professor Bruno Lapika Dimomfu, for organizing these training sessions. He recalled that staff training is an important lever for professional performance. Indeed, many employees do not receive retraining or capacity building while working with archaic and conservative methods.

For his part, in his speech, the Administrative Secretary General, Professor Bruno Lapika Dimomfu returned to the need for this cycle of training seminars for university administrative and faculty staff, referring to the 2006 strategic plan, the 2022/2023 objective on improving the functioning of the university institution and the existence of the status reports of each department established during the inspection of the latter. Several administrative ills were identified:

• Administrative inertia.
• Lack of ethical and moral values.
• Lack of supervision on good governance and new technologies.
• Disastrous management of assets.
• Destruction of pipes (hence the erosion).
• Lack of decent sanitation facilities.
• Lack of lighting on the main arteries of the university site.
• Lack of cultural and sporting activities.
• Lack of reception and staff guidance.
• Tribal mutuals.

Thus, these training sessions will focus, among other things, on the production of modern and operational management tools, on improving the performance of agents and on university values translated into behavior and attitudes for the visibility of the University of Kinshasa.

SGA slogan: “No to administrative laxity”.

The Rector of the University of Kinshasa, Professor Jean-Marie Kayembe Ntumba, will officially open these training sessions, emphasizing the all-out digitalization of administrative management, which should comply with the requirements of modernization, and wishing this first training session every success.