Bayero University, Kano on 20th June, 2023 held a Regional Strategy Validation Workshop on ratification of Disbursement Linked Indicators 7.1 designed by the World Bank and Association of African Universities for institutional impact.

The workshop was aimed at presenting the Draft report of regional strategy document for achieving the Disbursement Linked Indicators 7.1 with a view to making a comprehensive observation, providing input and ratifying it by the key stakeholders in the University.

Vice Chancellor, Professor Sagir Adamu Abbas, who presented the DLI 7 document, said part of the requirements of the World Bank is that Academic Centres of Excellence (ACEs) must positively impact their institutions. He said the broad objective is to impact on high quality training, strengthen and build regional partnership and conduct high impact research to address Africa’s developmental challenges.

The Vice Chancellor, who was represented by the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Management Services, Professor Mahmud Umar Sani, to achieve the objectives the ACEs required the support of the University Management. He said the two ACEs in BUK, Centre for Dryland Agriculture (CDA) and Africa Centre of Excellence for Population Health and Policy (ACEPHAP) enjoy the full support of the management in view of their performance and achievements.

Prof Abbas noted that the document would be applied to all the university not for the consumption of the ACEs alone. He commended the committee headed by Professor Mustapha Ahmad Isa for drafting the document.

The Chairman of the Draft Committee, Professor Isa said the committee was to review the functions and activities of the CDA and ACEPHAP and then draft a document for achieving the DLI. He said part of the activities of the committee was to organize the workshop to get a feedback from stakeholders involved directly or indirectly in the activities of those centres.

Professor Amina Mustapha, the CDA Deputy Director Outreach and Publications, presented the Draft Regional Strategy 2023-2028. The stakeholders took time to provide input and make valid suggestions on how to improve the document.

Earlier in his welcome address, the Director CDA, Professor Jibrin Mohammed Jibrin, who was represented by the Deputy Director Training of the CDA, Professor Sanusi Gaya Mohammed welcomed all the stakeholders to the CDA Conference Hall, venue of the workshop and said it was highly important workshop owing to the provision of the DLI 7 requirement that the ACEs ought to achieve.