The Core Working Group on Human Capital Development has commended the Nigerian government for accelerating its core mandate to achieve demographic dividend in the country.
Demographic dividend is the economic growth potential that can result from shifts in a population’s age structure.
The Director of Population Management and Development Department in the National Population Commission, Ms Margaret Edison during a media engagement with Stakeholders in Abuja the nation’s capital said the Core Working Group is working to actualise the country’s demographic dividend through Human capital Development.
The Group said all hands must be on deck in achieving its mandate.
Ms Edison also said that the Core Working Group is focusing on health, nutrition, addressing issues on women, girls, labour employment as well as education which are the critical pillars within the context of harnessing the demographic dividends.
She charged the media to inform the people because they are the people who are the centre of the development and therefore they should educate, inform and empower the people to be part of the process because everybody should be held accountable for playing critical roles by exhibiting responsibility.
The Coordinator of Human Capital Development in Nigeria, Ms Akinbi also said to attain the enviable heights that Nigeria targets in its Human Capital Development drive, there is a need for strategic communication priorities and objectives that must be articulated and agreed on.
The Coordinator added that the need for a consensus and inclusiveness in achieving this informed the gathering of major Human Capital Development stakeholders from the public sector, private sector, media and development sector.
Stakeholders in attendance include the media practitioners, journalists, representatives from the World Bank, Nigeria’s Governors Forum, Nigeria’s Ministry of Health, Labour and employment and UNICEF among others.
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