SES holds information workshops in Namibia

A Senior Expert Service (SES) project co-ordinator for Africa, Beate Jantzen, is in the country to hold workshops raising awareness about her organisation and how local business people, mainly those in the small to medium enterprises sector, could benefit from her organisation.

SES is the German industry’s volunteering service for international co-operation. The organisation engages experts who have high professional skills and are willing to contribute on basis of their experience and abilities after their retirement.The selected experts work for periods of some weeks to six months in places where they offer hands-on solutions to the particular problems and assist where necessary.Training and qualification of personnel always is in focus, and one condition is that the experts work with local counterparts.Qualifications for senior experts range from electrical and mechanical engineers to agricultural, marketing, finances, administration, management, chemical as well as health-care experts; public administration, and from bakers and butchers to cooks and carpenters.SES partners in Namibia are small and medium-sized enterprises, training facilities, churches, public authorities and institutions as well as international organisations.So far 75 assignments have been accomplished locally, mainly in the tourist sector, traffic and trade, in leather- and plastic processing, metalworking and servicing.According to the organisation’s media release, SES co-operates in many assignment approaches also with the Government.Through this non-governmental organisation more than 12 000 assignments are said to have been organised in 150 countries throughout the world since 1983.The organisation engages experts who have high professional skills and are willing to contribute on basis of their experience and abilities after their retirement.The selected experts work for periods of some weeks to six months in places where they offer hands-on solutions to the particular problems and assist where necessary.Training and qualification of personnel always is in focus, and one condition is that the experts work with local counterparts.Qualifications for senior experts range from electrical and mechanical engineers to agricultural, marketing, finances, administration, management, chemical as well as health-care experts; public administration, and from bakers and butchers to cooks and carpenters.SES partners in Namibia are small and medium-sized enterprises, training facilities, churches, public authorities and institutions as well as international organisations.So far 75 assignments have been accomplished locally, mainly in the tourist sector, traffic and trade, in leather- and plastic processing, metalworking and servicing.According to the organisation’s media release, SES co-operates in many assignment approaches also with the Government.Through this non-governmental organisation more than 12 000 assignments are said to have been organised in 150 countries throughout the world since 1983.