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Oct - Dec 2020
NIBAF Karachi Campus
NIBAF Karachi campus primarily conducts post-
induction and skills upgradation trainings for State
Bank of Pakistan and its subsidiaries (Banking
Services Corporation, Pakistan Security Printing
Corporation and Deposit Protection Corporation).
Recently, Karachi campus has started offering
commercial banking trainings as well. NIBAF
Karachi also coordinates and manages trainings
being planned and executed by Development
Finance Group through NIBAF Islamabad offered took time to move towards F2F during October
in the province of Sindh. 2020 having cautious approach, VILT remained the
larger part (three-fourth) during the quarter under
The training programs at Karachi campus are review.
broadly categorized into four areas: central
banking functional areas, soft-skills, IT skill-based, During the quarter, NIBAF Karachi conducted 49
and others (mostly awareness sessions in emerging trainings in total in all four categories. Excluding
areas). Most of the functional trainings are 12 iterations on Cyber Security (which were
conducted by internal trainers while soft-skill planned on urgent basis on SBP-BSC request to
trainers are external. Regarding IT skill-based cover all field offices before December 2020), 54
trainings, there is a blend of internal and external percent were on central banking functional areas,
trainers. while 26 percent of them on IT skill based. Most of
the trainings were repeated iterations of the
The Oct-Dec 2020 quarter witnessed a brief trainings conducted during Jul-Sep 2020 quarter
restoration of face-to-face (F2F) trainings after while a few new areas and topics were introduced
improving Covid-19 situation. However, in during the quarter under review. Specifically,
December 2020, F2F halted again as the Covid- Managing Anger, Fear & Anxiety during and after
19 resurged. Not only this second wave of Covid- Covid-19, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP),
19 forced to halt F2F trainings, but also reduced Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Basics
overall number of trainings. Many planned and for Central Bankers, Shariah Audit & Compliance,
scheduled trainings were forced to be abandoned IFRS 9 were newly introduced programs during
particularly soft-skills and workshop style. While it Oct-Dec 2020 while in repeated iterations were
Summary of Oct to Dec2020
Description Oct-Dec-2020
Total Number of Training 49
Total Number of Training Days 56
Face to Face (Classroom) 11
VILT (On line) 38
Full Day 26
Half Day 23
Soft Skills 5
Functional 22
IT Skills 7
Others 15
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