Following its success in the first time:

CAIRO - Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Professional Training Group (TAGI-TRAIN), a member of Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Global (TAG.Global), has organized, for the second time, the ‘Crisis Management’ training program for a host of Aswan Governorate officials. The program was conducted at the request of the Om Habibeh Foundation (OHF), an organization under the umbrella of the Aga Khan Development Network.

The first training program was held in October 2022 at the Aswan Governorate’s premises for a number of heads of local units in the Governorate including (Edfu, Kom Ombo, and Daraw), as well as staff members from the Governorate’s Technical Office. 

The Governorate's Ministries of Social Solidarity, Education and Technical Education, and the Ministry of Youth & Sports attended the second program.

The program addresses the obstacles and the challenges the Governorate is currently facing, including floods and the Coronavirus (COVID-19), a focusing  on the practical aspects by dividing the participants into working groups, where each group is given a specific suggested crisis to come up with solutions . This is in order to evaluate the extent to which participants benefit from the program.

The program also tackled several crisis management-related topics including the concept of crisis, its impact on the environment, causes of crises, their characteristics, and phase classifications. That is in addition to crisis response strategies, techniques, and tactics.

At the end of the program, certificates of attendance; certified by TAGI-TRAIN, were presented to participants by Mr. Moh'd A. Mosa, assistant training manager at TAG.Global Egypt Office, Dr. Rami Yousef, a lecturer, and Dr. Ahmed Abdo, OHF M&E Advisor.

It should be noted that the training program is part of the ‘Improving the Local Development Dynamics (ILDD) in Aswan’ project, funded by the European Union, and implemented by Om Habibeh Foundation.