Education
Eswatini
Knowledge Creation and Sharing
Witness protection training programme: An online training programme on Witness Protection for 23 legal professionals from the Kingdom of Eswatini was conducted by the National Law University, Jodhpur from 07-11 March 2022.
Capacity Building
- In April 2018, during his visit, Hon’ble President of India announced an increase of Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) slots from 30 to 50 as also a customized accounting training for 50 Treasury officials at the Institute of Government Accounts and Finance in India (INGAF). In fulfillment of these commitments, almost all ITEC slots were utilized and the training of 50 treasury officials was completed in 2018. 26 emaSwati availed ITEC training in India during the training year 2019-20, which include 06 Solar Mamas, 06 Police Officers of the Royal Eswatini Police Service. As many as 166 emaSwati participated in 09 eITEC courses during Covid19 time so far. Out of these 09 training courses, 06 were exclusive to Eswatini. In 2021-22, Eswatini availed 274 eITEC training slots. In all, since the establishment of HCI Mbabane, more than 300 Emaswati took part in both eITEC and in person ITEC programmes.
- Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) Africa Scholarship Scheme: Eswatini fully utilized all 25 slots allotted to it in 2020-21. An additional 15 slots were approved by ICCR on popular demand among Emaswati students in the Academic Year 2021-22, upon full utilization of 25 allocated scholarship slots, as a special case. For the Academic Year 2022-23, 40 Emaswati students have been offered ICCR scholarships under Africa Scholarship Scheme. For the Academic Year 2023-24, we awarded 30 ICCR scholarships and requested ICCR to allocate another 20.
