With the support of the SIDA (The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) the team leaders of the National University of Rwanda completed a three day training on project coordination, documents management and friendly web content management system this Wednesday at the university main campus.

Addressing participants, Dr. Patrik Svanerudh, the CEO of Designtech, a Swedish company that offered this training, noted that these Web-based Solutions training has been overly relevant in boosting the productivity for large-scale organizations and projects.

“We provide helpful trainings within big projects to maintain multiple and different document structures, project plans, or project calendars while still retaining control of the overall structure, with the possibility to aggregate information across multiple projects.” He said. Responsively to problem risen mostly in project coordination coupled with documents management faced with workers in their daily service, these participants were trained on web-based system that will enable them to easily manage all documents through the web browser.

This training furthered looking into a variety of crucial daily job-related matters as regards project coordination alongside documents management that will broadly assist them in managing and tracking different project plans, keeping track of budgets and costs, handling different types of resources and materials, communications amongst them, sharing project related information in a secure way and generating reports that are accurate and meaningful.

Besides this training, over a decade back, the Sida support to NUR covers several components, which are referred to as projects of long run programs within a variety of research fields aiming at sustainable national development.

It is worth noting that the SIDA currently supports Peace and conflict Research, Education Research, Environmental Research, ICT Research, Applied Mathematics Research, Medicine Research, Research Commission, Improving Research Environment for recent PhD Graduates, Facilitating Research Training to Female Staff Members, Library, ICT Infrastructure, Administration and Finance, Support to the Directorate of Planning and Development, Program Coordination, Cross Cutting Issues, and MIS program.

By Donat NZIGIYIMANA