National Sports College Winneba to organise training on sports Governance and leadership

The National Sports College [NSC], Winneba, will organise a four-day certificate course in Sports Governance and Leadership from October 01-05.

The course would be done in five zones namely Winneba, Kumasi, Tamale, Ho, and Accra.

Mrs Florence Adams, head of the Public Relations Unit at the College, explained that the programme would serve as a refresher course for sports administrators across the country.

She said they had targeted the Security Services Sports Association, Secretary-Generals of the various National Federations, Officers from the National Sports Authority, Ghana Olympic Committee, National Paralympic Committee and Administrators from the Ministry of Youth and Sports.

She, however, added that the programme was opened to the public and anyone interested or had the desire to take up sports management and administration in the future.

She mentioned that the course content would include sports governance landscape, Developing effective governance structures in sports organizations, Transparency in sports, Accountability in sports and Professionalism in sports.

Other areas to be considered are Building effective relationships with stakeholders, scope of sports leadership, leadership principles in sports organizations, leadership competencies in sports organizations, sport leadership and team dynamics, and leadership models in sports.

Resource persons for the course would also be Dr. Daniel Apaak from the University of Cape Coast and Dr. Austin Luguterrah from the University of Ghana and University of Education, Winneba.

The PRO stated that as Ghana was preparing to host the Africa Games, it was necessary for the College as part of its mandate to groom sports managers and administrators for the effective run of the Games.

She said the course will in the long run boost the human resource capacity of the sports ecosystem in the country.

Mrs Adams mentioned that the fee for the course was pecked at GH1,200 and will take care of tuition, accommodation and feeding, and course materials like a certificate of completion, a branded polo shirt and stationery.

She noted that registration was ongoing, and that interested people could contact the NSC on 0244936765 for enquiries.

The National Sports College [NSC, Winneba] was established by the erstwhile PNDC Government in 1984 under S.M.C. Decree No.54, 1976.

At the time of its establishment, Ghana’s performance in sports at the international level was experiencing a downward slide because of the exodus of the sectors technical and human resource for greener pastures.

The College accordingly was charged with the responsibility of training and re-training the country’s technical and human resource in the Sports sector to fill the vacancies created by the exodus of trained and skilled officials to sustain the development and promotion of Sports in Ghana.

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