CITIZENS COMPASS—The Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON), yesterday, said it has introduced a model aimed at repositioning the public sector in Nigeria.
ASCON disclosed this through its Director General, Dr. Funke Adepoju Olayomi, who identified the model as R.I.S.E.
Olayomi doubles as the visiting member of AIG Imokhuede Foundation.
The Director General in a statement said: Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON), and visiting member of AIG Imokhuede Foundation, Dr. Funke Adepoju Olayomi introduced the R.I.S.E. Model — a practitioner-grounded policy framework proposing that public sector training institutions be repositioned as Reform-Inspired, Systems-driven, Execution-focused engines of governance transformation. Drawing on comparative evidence from Indonesia, Nepal, and Kenya, and anchored in her experience leading ASCON, she argued that the enduring failure of capacity building to translate into measurable reform outcomes is not a training problem — it is an institutional design problem. The R.I.S.E. The model offers a structured response: reorienting institutions like ASCON away from transactional programme delivery toward sustained reform implementation, with ASCON positioned as the pilot. The model is already attracting continental impact.
