Course Objective: This is a two phased training program. Each phase is a 5 day workshop meant to build the capacities of the participants towards promoting conflict resolution and peace initiatives among diverse communities and the people they serve. The training is expected to enhance their skills towards effective interactions with diverse community members within their constituencies.
Course Content: The course topics will include the following:
Phase one:
Phase two:
Target Group: This course targets program managers, fundraising staff, Local government employees, Managers, department heads, team leaders and supervisors of NGOs, LNGOs, CBOs, Church leaders, technical and academic team members.
Dates and Venues:
- 20-24 Sept 2011, Nairobi, Kenya
- 204- 08 Oct 2011, Juba, Southern Sudan
Duration: 5 days
Course fees: US$600 including tuition, food and accommodation
Course Objective: The Course seeks to enhance participants’ skills and knowledge on methods/tools/process of effective and efficient Organizational Development. More importantly, participants will get an opportunity to share experiences, ideas and knowledge on OD.
Course Content: The Workshop topics will include the following:
Target Group: Project managers and coordinators, development workers/field workers, social workers, field animators, interns and development volunteers
Dates and Venues:
- 27 Sept - 01 Oct 2011, Nairobi, Kenya
- 11- 15 Oct 2011, Juba, Southern Sudan
Duration: 5 days
Course fees: US$600 including tuition, food and accommodation
Course Objective: To provide practical experience sharing and experiential learning on the organizational ethnic, features, growth and principles underlying the productivity of development organizations; and how such organizations can be re-aligned to focus on their mandate.
Course Content: The course topics will include the following:
- The concept of M & E within development projects
- Understanding organizational development
- The context of OD in development organizations
- Features and principles of organizational development
- Advantages of organizational development
- Stages of growth and development in organizations
- Organizational culture and how it impacts on performance
- Using OD as an alternative assessment approach
- Enhancing the capacity and effectiveness of organizations through OD
- Strategic re-organization through OD
- Reviewing information systems
- Planning for OD: some preconditions to review
- Challenges of organizational development
- Determining the way forward with organizational development
Target Group: Project managers and coordinators, development workers/field workers, social workers, field animators, interns and development volunteers.
Dates and Venues:
- 18-22 Oct 2011, Nairobi, Kenya
- 01- 05 Nov 2011, Juba, Southern Sudan
Duration: 5 days
Course fees: US$600 including tuition, food and accommodation
Course Objective: This is a one week course that seeks to equip development practitioners with requisite techniques and skills in applying the strategic planning approach for organizational growth.
Course Content: The course topics will include the following:
- Concept of participatory development
- Understanding strategic planning
- Distinct approaches in strategic planning
- Components of the planning process
- Creating a realistic future through collective visioning
- Determining organizational mandates (Mission statements)
- Strategy development
- Identifying the core values
- Strategic directions focus
- Developing strategic objectives
- Key strategies or actions
- Mapping of interventions on timelines
- Determinants of the implementation of change
- Using strategic planning as an instrument for Organizational Capacity
Assessment as well as Monitoring and Evaluation
- From strategic planning to LFA
Target Group: Project managers and coordinators, development workers/field workers, social workers, field animators, interns and development volunteers.
Dates and Venues:
- 04-08 April 2011, Nairobi, Kenya
- 18-22 April 2011, Juba, Southern Sudan
Duration: 5 days
Course fees: US$600 including tuition, food and accommodation
Course Objective: The 2 weeks course is tailor made to facilitate specific knowledge, aptitudes and skills on the theoretical framework, methodologies and practical application of the Participatory Learning and Action (PLA/PRA) paradigms as entry points in the assessment of needs and resources for project start-up and development. Practical field application and simulations are in build in this training program.
Course Content: The course topics will include the following:
- The concept of PLA
- Understanding the interface between PRA and PLA
- The development and participatory context of PLA
- The fundamental differences between PLA and other approaches
- Genesis of rural and urban learning appraisal
- The main pillars of the appraisal and learning paradigms
- Key steps of the methodologies
- Principles that underlie the methods of PLA
- Gender mainstreaming in relation to PLA
- Issues of advocacy and lobbying within PLA
- Data collection, techniques and tools
- The importance and centrality of Community Action Plans (CAP)
- Synthesis, analysis and interpretation of the data
- Validation of the draft data and initial information accruing from the
exercise
- Tips and techniques on report writing
- Structural and organizational challenges facing PLA
- Facing the future with confidence through PLA
Target Group: Project managers and coordinators, development workers/field workers, social workers, field animators, interns and development volunteers.
Dates and Venues:
- 11-15 April 2011, Nairobi, Kenya
- 25-29 April 2011, Juba, Southern Sudan
Duration: 5 days
Course fees: US$600 including tuition, food and accommodation
Course Objective: To enhance participants' knowledge, skills and practices in results-based project management.
Course Content: The course topics will include the following:
- Models of development
- Rationale for project development
- The project Cycle Management
- Key developmental components of a project
- Nine major reasons why projects succeed
- Sixteen key issues that make projects flop
- Understanding the "World" of a project
- Main steps in project planning
- Special features to address during planning
- Aspects of sustainability that inform projects
- Results Based Management
- The logical Frame work approach
- Local and external fundraising mechanisms
- Management theory and practice in projects
- Delegation of power and authority
- Sustainability measures and practices
- Introducing change in a non-threatening way
Target Group: Project managers and coordinators, development workers/field workers, social workers, field animators, interns and development volunteers.
Dates and Venues:
- 02-06 May 2011, Nairobi, Kenya
- 16-20 May 2011, Juba, Southern Sudan
Duration: 5 days
Course fees: US$600 including tuition, food and accommodation
Course Objective: To enable the participants acquire requisite knowledge, awareness and competencies in the preparation and submission of timely & quality reports.
The report writing course entails an introduction to the type of information and formats used for project progress report writing for own use, and for submission to donors and partners. A typical format will be used in this course only as an illustration. The content of this course is aimed at equipping the participants with the necessary skills in gathering of the information, designing of formats and the actual writing and presentation of project progress reports.
Course Content: The course topics will include the following:
- Target audience in reporting
- Why project progress reports?
- Link between report writing and detailed activity plans/immediate milestones
- Information needs in reporting
- General tips on report writing
- Formats for progress reports
- Reporting on project implementation
- Reporting on project management/Administration
- Reporting on budgets and project costs
- Common challenges with reports and reporting
- The way forward with reports and reporting
Target Group: Project managers and coordinators, development workers/field workers, social workers, field animators, interns and development volunteers.
Dates and Venue:
- 09-13 May 2011, Nairobi, Kenya
- 23-27 May 2011, Juba, Southern Sudan
Duration: 5 days
Course fees: US$600 including tuition, food and accommodation
Course Objective: To enable participants acquire pertinent awareness and sensitivity to gender related issues and to incorporate the same in program design, planning and implementation and development.
Course Content: The course topics will include the following:
- The historical underpinning of women's movements / gender and development
- The social construction of gender
- Understanding the concept of gender
- Myths and facts about the concept of gender
- Women in development and Gender in development
- The role of gender in sustainable development
- The relationship between gender equality, gender equity and empowerment
- Gender Analysis: step 1 ( gender roles, practical and strategic gender
needs)
- Gender Analysis : step 2 (Access, control and benefits to national, local
and household resources)
- Gender and HIV/AIDS: Its effects to development
- Gender planning methods
- Gender mainstreaming in organizations, programmes and projects
- Monitoring and evaluating gender programmes
Target Group: Project managers and coordinators, development workers/field workers, social workers, field animators, interns and development volunteers.
Dates and Venues:
- 30 May - 03 June 2011, Nairobi, Kenya
- 13-17 June 2011, Juba, Southern Sudan
Duration: 5 days
Course fees: US$600 including tuition, food and accommodation
Course Objective: Leadership and team building is a training course that is both challenging and practical. We aim to expose the participants/learners to the fundamental 'people management skills' in a positive and constructive environment. It has been designed to enable participants to understand the basic fundamentals of strategy and motivation in team building. You will benefit by learning tips and techniques that will increase your competence and confidence when managing, influencing and leading teams and individuals. Hence this course is geared towards exploring, identifying and acquiring useful and time-tested skills in building effective teams as well as models and channels that help to build winning teams in organizations.
Course Content: The course topics will include the following:
- The concept of teams in the work place
- Ingredients of effective teams
- Organizational culture in relation to effective teams
- Task-oriented roles of effective teams
- Relationship oriented roles of effective teams - setting standards and
follow up
- Core behavioural patterns that shape teams
- Effective human relations in performing teams
- Evaluating team effectiveness
- Self-discovery in effective teams - developing your own leadership development
strategy
- Appraisal/development skills
- What effective communication is all about?
- Developing channels for effective communication
- Communication systems in relation to organizational capacities
- Using the twelve signal systems effectively
- Common errors that affect communication in teams
Target Group: Project managers and coordinators, development workers/field workers, social workers, field animators, interns and development volunteers.
Dates and Venues:
- 06-10 June 2011, Nairobi, Kenya
- 20-24 June 2011, Juba, Southern Sudan
Duration: 5 days
Course fees: US$600 including tuition, food and accommodation
Course Objective: The life skills training program, a 5 days workshop, is specifically tailored to promote self - confidence, healthy communication skills, and responsive decision making among the youth. It is further seeks to provide an opportunity for the participants to develop healthy attitudes and behaviours before they are exposed to the sexual pressures of adolescence; and to lay the foundation of minimizing HIV/Aids risk in adulthood.
Course Content: The course topics will include the following:
- The concept of life skills and its relevance
- Assertiveness, , self awareness and self esteem
- copying with stress
- Coping with emotions
- Skills for knowing and living with others
- Interpersonal relationships
- Problem Solving
- Effective communication
- Formation of friendship and peer resistance
- Negotiation, curiosity and consultation
- Critical and creative thinking
- Decision making in action
Target Group: Young and potential development workers/field workers, social workers, field animators, interns and development volunteers.
Dates and Venues:
- 27 June-01 July 2011, Nairobi, Kenya
- 11-15 July 2011, Juba, Southern Sudan
Duration: 5 days
Course fees: US$600 including tuition, food and accommodation
Course Objective: Excellent presentation skills give development workers a platform to demonstrate leadership qualities, communication skills, influencing abilities and promotion potential. Our objective over the 5 days is to explore the skills and techniques that will give participants both the confidence and competence to enjoy making presentations in all situations. We will be giving action points to sharpen your image; reduce nerves; allow you to appear both confident and competent and increase your credibility in the eyes of the communities we serve.
This course therefore, focuses on developing participant's skills and confidence in an encouraging, and positive environment whilst maintaining an element of fun and active participation.
Course Content: The course topics will include the following:
- How to project credibility in your presentation
- Recognising essential do's and don'ts for perfect presentations
- Keeping audience attention throughout the presentation
- How to deliver powerful beginnings and endings
- How to structure your presentation to deliver your key messages
- How to recognise and maximise your presentation strengths
- How to hide visible signs of nerves
- How to write impromptu presentations
- How to maximise voice projection to create impact
- Develop powerful body language
- How to handle difficult questions from difficult audiences
- How to design and use visual aids to support your message
Target Group: Our courses allow all staff to benefit from enhanced presentation skills. This course targets program managers, fundraising staff, Local government employees, Managers, department heads, team leaders and supervisors of NGOs, LNGOs, CBOs, Church leaders, technical and academic team members.
Dates and Venues:
- 04-08 July 2011, Nairobi, Kenya
- 18-22 July 2011, Juba, Southern Sudan
Duration: 5 days
Course fees: US$600 including tuition, food and accommodation
Course Objective: This is a 1 week course in Training of Facilitators/Training of Trainers, programme managers, planners, and policy-makers. The course uses participatory, practical and experiential learning approaches to enable participants use their experiences and to understand the various concepts while constructing their own knowledge. The content equips organizational staff and their field trainers with the necessary skills to enable them to systematically identify training needs among their organization's beneficiary constituency.
Course Content: The course topics will include the following:
- Understanding the concepts and purpose of training
- Understanding the three approaches to facilitating sustainable community
development
- Concept and practice of community participation
- Understanding the role of community participation
- Concept of community empowerment
- Participatory methods of assessing training needs in organizations and
communities
- Developing a training curriculum
- Methods of adult learning
- Problem posing approach for adult learning
- Psychology of adult learning
- Planning and organizing training workshop
- Evaluating training events
- Developing a Training curriculum
- Methods of evaluating a training event
- Action planning in teams
Target Group: Our courses allow all staff to benefit from enhanced presentation skills. This course targets program managers, fundraising staff, Local government employees, Managers, department heads, team leaders and supervisors of NGOs, LNGOs, CBOs, FBOs, technical and academic team members.
Dates and Venues:
- 26-30 July 2011, Nairobi, Kenya
- 09-13 August 2011, Juba, Southern Sudan
Duration: 5 days
Course fees: US$600 including tuition, food and accommodation
Course Objective: The overall aim of this a 5 days workshop is to increase the capacity of participants with the knowledge, skills and appropriate attitudes necessary as they respond to current and future needs relating to HIV/AIDS through providing direct training and capacity building support.
Course Content: The course topics will include the following:
- Background and facts about HIV and AIDS
- Emerging trends in HIV and AIDS
- Modes of transmission of STI/HIV
- Effects of HIV and AIDS on Immune System
- Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS
- Socio-economic effects of HIV and AIDS
- Prevention and control of HIV/AIDS
- HIV and AIDS management and care and support for infected and affected
- Communicable diseases
- Mitigation of HIV and AIDS
- HIV and AIDS Counselling
- Community responsibilities
- HIV and AIDS mainstreaming in organizations, programmes and projects
Target Group: Human resource managers/officers. This course targets program managers, fundraising staff, Local government employees, Managers, department heads, team leaders and supervisors of NGOs, LNGOs, CBOs, Church leaders, technical and academic team members.
Dates and Venues:
- 02-06 August 2011, Nairobi, Kenya
- 16-20 August 2011, Juba, Southern Sudan
Duration: 5 days
Course fees: US$600 including tuition, food and accommodation
Course Objective: This is a 5 day training program geared towards the enhanced awareness and practical skills which are necessary for effective performance of projects through conceptualization, planning, implementation and appraisal using the Logical Framework Approach (LFA).
Course Content: The course topics will include the following:
- Understanding the concept of LFA
- Assumptions of the LFA approach
- Fundamental advantages of LFA
- The LFA approach (Methodology)
- Planning frameworks through LFA
- Stakeholder analysis
- Analysis of the core project elements (internal and external)
- Undertaking project design
- Developing the logical hierarchies of functional projects
- LFA elements and results based planning
- Determining the objectively verifiable indicators
- Identifying the means of verification
- Assessing/checking the external factors
- Using the Log frame in project planning
- Project monitoring and review
- Project evaluation
- Challenges in using the Log frame approach
Target Group: This course targets program managers, fundraising staff, Local government employees, Managers, department heads, team leaders and supervisors of NGOs, LNGOs, CBOs, Church leaders, technical and academic team members.
Dates and Venues:
- 23-27 August 2011, Nairobi, Kenya
- 06-10 September 2011, Juba, Southern Sudan
Duration: 5 days
Course fees: US$600 including tuition, food and accommodation
Course Objective: To enable the participants acquire requisite knowledge, awareness and competencies in crafting effective funding proposals as worthy tools for project development and fund-raising.
The proposal writing course seeks to enhance the capacity of the partici pants to identify, learn and put to use new and effective approaches for fundraising. Furthermore, the course is aimed at equipping participants with the necessary skills in gathering of the necessary information, designing of formats, the actual writing and submission of project proposals for fund raising.
Course Content: The course topics will include the following:
- Project proposal content
- Introduction to project proposal writing
- Project identification/Conceptualization
- The diverse purposes of project proposals
- Project benefits and justification
- Project briefs
- Project proposal formats
- Proposal summary
- Problem statement
- Project justification and prioritization
- Goals and objectives
- Project purposes and outputs
- Project strategy and approaches
- Implementation plans
- Project design frameworks
- Organizational frameworks
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Project costs and budgets
Target Group: Project managers and coordinators, development workers/field workers, social workers, field animators, interns and development volunteers.
Dates and Venues:
- 30 August - 03 Sept 2011, Nairobi, Kenya
- 13-17 Sept 2011, Juba, Southern Sudan
Duration: 5 days
Course fees: US$600 including tuition, food and accommodation
Course Objective: To enhance knowledge and skills among development workers, managers and support agencies on the management of Community Based Organizations (CBO) as basic civil society units for realizing community transformation and sustainable development.
Course Content: The course topics will include the following:
- Understanding CBOs
- Why CBOs are important as civil society units for Community transformation
- The stages of evolution and development
- Leadership in CBOs
- Building trust in CBOs
- The Role of External Animators in CBOs
- Needs assessment in CBOs
- Record Keeping in CBOs
- CBO Constitution formulation
- Human relation in CBOs
- Communication Skills For CBO Animators
- Fund Raising Strategies in CBOs
- Project Proposal Writing
- Financial Management
- Sustainability considerations in CBOs
- Simple, but effective planning
- Monitoring in CBOs
- Evaluation of CBO Activities
- The qualities of an empowered CBO
Target Group: Project managers and coordinators, development workers/field workers, social workers, field animators, interns and development volunteers.
Dates and Venues:
- 25-29 Oct 2011, Nairobi, Kenya
- 08- 12 Nov 2011, Juba, Southern Sudan
Duration: 5 days
Course fees: US$600 including tuition, food and accommodation