H.E. Mr Yavuz Selim Kıran, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey, paid a courtesy visit to the Headquarters of the Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries (SESRIC), on 17 January 2020, in Ankara, Republic of Turkey. During his visit, H.E. Mr Yavuz Selim Kıran, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey, met with H.E. Mr Nebil Dabur, the Director General of SESRIC and the Directors of the Centre along with all the staff of the Centre.

SESRIC has, over the years, initiated many capacity-building Programmes on a wide range of socio-economic areas of interest to the OIC member countries with a view to enhancing the capacities of their human resources in the relevant national institutions. The Centre implements these Programmes in collaboration with the relevant national, OIC and international institutions through various modalities, such us training courses, training workshops and study visits. The Centre usually conducts its training and capacity building activities physically by matching the capacities and needs of different national institutions of the member countries. In addition, the Centre hosts and manages a number of specific thematic Networks and Portals that bring together national focal points of relevant national institutions with the aim of sharing knowledge and exchanging expertise and best practices.

SESRIC organised on-the-job training course on “Technology Incubation and Transfer” between 9 December 2019 and 01 February 2020 in Kocaeli, Turkey. The training was implemented as the second phase of the capacity building component of the Reverse Linkage Project between Sudan and Turkey on “Capacity Development of the Africa City of Technology (ACT)”.