The Chartered Institute of Project Managers of Nigeria, CIPMN, says it would collaborate with the Federal Government to develop a standardisation roadmap for project execution in the Country.
The Institute’s Establishment Act empowers it to license all project management practitioners in Nigeria, withdraw Licenses of erring practitioners; prohibit non-registered members from engaging or practicing Project Management in Nigeria among other functions; as well as Supervise, regulate and train project management bodies and practitioners in Nigeria.
The Registrar, CIPMN, Mr. Henry Ifeanyi Mbadiwe, disclosed this during a courtesy visit to the Nigerian Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Doris Uzoka-Anite in Abuja, the Country’s Capital.
Mr. Mbadiwe who pledged the Institute’s support to the Minister’s initiatives in the areas of Human capital development, planning, delivering and monitoring the Ministry’s initiatives for national development, said that the Institute has started with immediate effect, to put together, standardisation practices for the profession in Nigeria with a plan to train and certify Professionals in project management all over Nigeria.
“We will start to work with other membership regulatory bodies that interface with projects across the country to ensure that we have one view on how to standardise the project sectors and to ensure that all stakeholders in project delivery have a voice in shaping the sector.
“We will further our work in creating a project management delivery methodology for practicing project delivery in an ethnic, religious, political, culturally diverse country such as Nigeria called: Delivering Unified Controlled Agile Project (DUCAP). As PRINCE to Methodology was created by the United Kingdom and PMP (by PMI) in the United States, DUCAP will build our own Nigerian methodology suited for our own unique environment,” he explained.
Highlighting the importance of youths and education in building a great and prosperous nation, the Registrar of the Institute, Mr. Henry Mbadiwe disclosed that CIPMN was already working to include project management in school curriculum.
“We will further deepen our work with the National University Commission (NUC) in ensuring that the project management curriculum for Nigerian Universities that we were part of creating continue to get updated as the profession advances.
“We will work directly with all universities in Nigeria to ensure that their project management curriculums are accredited by us in line with the law and that we support them in any way they require to ensure that they have the resources to deliver lectures in the field of project management.
“We will work with the organised private sector, other Ministries, Departments and Agency (MDAs) of government to ensure that they have the necessary skillset to abide by the law as regards ensuring that no unqualified person is allowed to practice project management without a licence”.
“Furthermore, we will ensure that we put enforcement processes in place for those who would want to take the law for granted. First to help them not to break the law, but also not to shy away from making sure that offenders are punished in accordance with the law.”
The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Doris Uzoka-Anite, appreciated the Council’s visit and reminded the Council that its responsibilities are so important to the nation and that it would be of immense benefit to utilize the Institutes expertise in project managing various initiatives being run within the ministry and the nation at large.
Dr. Uzoka-Anite assured them that the Ministry has and is always willing to work with the Institute (CIPMN) and to support it in any way it could, to ensure that its mandates are achieved.
