KOICA helps capacity building of Sri Lankan officials

The Association of KOICA(Korea International Cooperation Agency) Fellows (AKOFE), an alumni association of KOICA training participants held a workshop in Marawila to build members' capacities toward their service improvement and seek ways to conduct social service activities in Sri Lanka as part of KOICA's after-care programmes to AKOFE.

Since its foundation in 1991, KOICA has offered the training and scholarship programmes to Sri Lankan Government officials and personnel by sharing Korea's capacity building and human resources development experiences.

Under the KOICA training and scholarship program, 1,000 Sri Lankan officials and personnel had been invited to Korea so far. In recognition of necessity of consolidating relations of KOICA and KOICA training participants, the AKOFE was formed on July 21, 1999.

It has 500 members who received scholarships and trainings.

Under the KOICA's sponsorship, the AKOFE annually organizes a capacity building workshop, charity projects, household items donation activities and provision of school teaching materials.

In addition, it also hold a year-end get-together event in which the KOICA training alumni, KOICA staff and volunteers and other Korean expatriates jointly participate and exchange mutual culture and custom, thereby promoting relations between our two countries.