FIRST CURACAO STUDENT GRADUATES IN PARLIAMENTARY BUDGETING FROM WORLD BANK INSTITUTE
By JJosepha News
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Willemstad; Curacao. Josefina Josepha recently became the first student from Curacao to graduate from a course in parliamentary budgeting offered by the World Bank Institute (WBI).
Part of the World Bank Group, the WBI is a global connector of knowledge, learning and innovation for poverty reduction. It prides itself on connecting practitioners and institutions in helping to find suitable solutions to developmental challenges.
WBI instructor in the Parliamentary Strengthening Cluster in Governance Global Practice, Mr Staddon, offered his comments about Josefina’s course project and congratulated her in her achievements.
"There were about 150 registered participants and about a quarter received a certificate for completing the course. Josefina Josepha is the first representative from Curacao to have been accepted and completed the course; you can also note the wide spread of countries involved," Staddon said.
"Thank you for your final project entitled ‘The Efficiency and Proficiency of the Autonomous Curacao’s Parliamentary Budgetary Process During the Pre-Election Period’. It is well presented and structured and I enjoyed reading about the situation in Curacao. The reader is able to obtain a great deal of information about the situation in your jurisdiction. You are wise to begin the paper with some contextual information about the political system,” he told Josefina.
“Josefina was completing her schooling at the same time as starting to contribute articles about Curacao, and demonstrated an impressive social awareness in her first article ‘Petition For Justice for Students in Curacao’, said Caribbean News Now editor, Barry Randall.
“Now she is officially the first Curacaoan to graduate from the WBI course, since the World Bank’s inception and I believe she has a whole lot more to offer. We look forward to her coverage of Curacao’s next general election," he added.
WBI consultant, Ms Pozer, also congratulated Josefina and stated, "It is always wonderful to hear from someone that has enjoyed and benefited from our courses!"
Pozer further commented that Curacao was one of the 38 countries that participated and Josefina Josepha was among the 31% of the registrants in Gov 101 Parliamentary Budgeting that were females.
Mr Abraham, a follower and critic of Josefina’s work, commented, "I can count on what she says because she analyzes the situation, not like other reporters or journalists in Curacao that simply copy and paste information without strict perspective relevance; that’s important."
Abraham continued, "She is the real deal when it comes to investigative reporting hands down and case closed, no other English-writing journalist in Curacao comes close. She is by far the youngest journalist in Curacao, especially among the local international English-reporting journalists, and that youthful vibrancy helps."
He added, "She is good, but she still has a lot of improvement to make, but being the first ever female or Curacao person to be accepted and graduate from the course in Governance and Parliamentary Budgeting, well that puts her in a class all by herself in Curacao.”
When asked what is in the future for her, Josepha responded, "Well first things first, I can’t put the carriage before the horse, I have to finish Parliamentary Budgeting 2. In Curacao there are real problems that require a new and innovative approach, strategies or philosophies and I am grateful for the opportunity to learn and kindle a burning desire to see improvement and development in this small land of 444 square kilometers with over 40 miles of coastline and about 164,000 inhabitants, thru parliamentary budgeting.”
She described the many challenges along the path to completing the course.
"Well! Where should I start? The most obvious is with The Staten van Curacao, that is Curacao’s Parliament, I felt they could have been far more cooperative and offer their assistance a lot more and be a lot more helpful and amicable but thanks to one member of parliament it wasn’t all a lost issue," she explained.
"I have become a believer in the four pillars of good governance and I look forward to putting to good use the knowledge and learning I have amassed to covering and presenting the news on Parliamentary Budgeting and the pre-election and election time in Curacao’s 2016 National Election," she continued.
Josefina clarified that "election fever" has already infected a whole lot of new organizations and political parties, many with the same faces but in new parties and a minority with new faces in leadership roles, but it will be interesting to see how the citizens of Curacao will evaluate, judge and beat up or protect what they hold true to their hearts.
“I think that the majority of Curasalenos will look at the country’s budget, parliamentary behaviour and the country’s economic and financial status as a measuring tool. Let us remember, that Curacao, as an autonomous country is just five years old; but maturing at a developmental standard,” she noted.
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