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Course Name: Effective Leadership and Management in Community Development Projects and Programmes

Special offer for group registration:
Number of participants Fees
2-5 $ 700
6 -10 $ 650
11-50 $ 500
> 50 $ 450
To register as a group, contact us through: E: trainings@vitalextralearning.com or give us a call on T: +254707053111
Course Date Duration Location Fee: Registrations
Date: 01/04/2024 - 05/04/2024 5 Days Kigali, Rwanda $ 950 Click to register
Date: 06/05/2024 - 10/05/2024 5 Days Mombasa, Kenya $ 950 Click to register
Date: 03/06/2024 - 07/06/2024 5 Days Pretoria, S/Africa $ 950 Click to register

Duration

5 Days

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Email: info@ vitalextralearning.com

Telephone:
+234 (0) 8038 066705,
+234 (0) 9039055940
+254 707 053 111

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Course Description

This training course will provide participants with key insights, tips and skills to better manage, perform, motivate and ultimately become a successful leader of both the project team and the project itself. During this highly engaging and interactive training course, you will learn why management and leadership skills matter, and how successful leaders can build high performing project teams through behaviours to support the technical skills that are already there. Ultimately, the best project leaders develop others to make a significant contribution to their work on the project.  Project managers are catalysts for change. Learn how development of your leadership skills will help to inspire a sense of shared purpose in the project team, and how to manage projects from beginning to end using proven project-management techniques. Successful leaders have the discipline to think through alternatives from a strategic point of view. Their consistent ability to make smart decisions stems from asking the right questions. If you are looking to increase your skills around management and leadership in community development programmes, and if you believe you have what it takes to lead, then this is the training for you.

 

Learning outcomes

By the end of this course the participants will be able to:

      Understand the importance of the mental shift from project manager to project leader in community development projects and programmes.

      Enhance their personal growth through psychometric and Emotional Intelligence evaluations.

      Improve decision-making skills to deliver important and timely responses in projects and programmes.

      Cultivate their project teams in preparation for project success.

 

Who should enroll?

This course is strongly recommended for managers, officers, administrators involved in project implementations at community levels. Persons performing project management tasks and those that want to increase their project management skills using a formalized and standards-based approach to project management are encouraged to apply.

 

Why train with us

Vital Extra Learning guarantees our clients:

      State-of-the-art facilities and training infrastructure

      Extended tradition of hand-holding during post engagement

      Service delivery through highly seasoned industry experts.

      Value for money

 

TOPICS TO BE COVERED:

Module 1:

Introduction to Community Development

  • What is community development?
  • Key concepts in community development
  • Characteristics of healthy and unhealthy communities
  • Assumptions in community development
  • Principles in community development
  • Approaches in community development
  • Challenges in community development
  • Community development roles
  • Community collaboration.
  • Working effectively across different organizational cultures

 

Community Empowerment Techniques

  • Community ownership and action for social change
  • The external agent as catalyst
  • The right policy in empowerment

 

Participatory Methods for Community Development

  • Gaining a deeper understanding of a community.
  • Using criteria and processes to set priorities.
  • Participatory methods (PRA, PUA, RRA, ABCD)
  • Participatory tools
  • Participatory learning and action (PLA)

 

Module 2:

Community and Economic Development

  • Factors to consider when initiating community development
    Importance of community development
  • Participation of people in community activities

 

Theories of Social Change and Community Development

  • Meaning of social change
  • Causes of social change
  • Best strategies for social change

 

Indicators of Community Development

  • Community diversity - advantages
  • Community participation
  • Assessing community readiness in development
  • Community development catalysts

 

Community Leadership

  • The concept of leadership
  • Power and leadership
  • Types of leaders and styles
  • Techniques of identifying community leaders
  • Community organizations

 

Module 3:

Principles and Practices of Management

  • Effective communication in community development
  • Building the team.
  • Effective meetings planning for change governance

 

Communication and Leadership Skills

  • Communication skills.
  • Learning styles
  • Facilitation skills.
  • Leadership skills
  • Negotiation skills.

 

Successful Partnerships in Community Development

  • Working together in community development
  • Finding resources for community development

 

Community capacity building

  • Effective community capacity building
  • Asset and capacity assessment
  • The impact of building the capacity on community development

 

Evaluating and sustaining community projects

  • Choosing an evaluation format.
  • Evaluation methods.
  • Sustaining momentum.

 

Module 4:

Diversity and Inclusion

  • Introduction to diversity and inclusion.
  • Issues and challenges.
  • An organizational change strategy
  • Steps to inclusivity.

 

Tools and Techniques for Implementing Inclusiveness

  • Outcomes planning
  • Inclusive events.
  • Responding to opposition
  • Assessing the community demographic.
  • Encouraging diverse community involvement  
  • Conducting focus groups.
  • Organizational self-assessment tool.
  • Roles and responsibilities of stakeholders evaluating community development success.

 

Planning community development Programmes

  • Conducting a situational assessment.
  • Setting goals, audiences and outcome objectives.
  • Choosing strategies and activities
  • Assign resources to development programmes
  • Development indicators.

 

Module 5:

Resource Mobilization

  • What is resource mobilization?
  • Types of resources
  • Sources of resources – internal and external
  • Ways of mobilizing resources
  • Tools for resource mobilization

 

Proposal Writing

  • Managing the proposal development process
  • Developing a funding proposal.
  • Producing and packaging a funding proposal
  • Submitting proposal and follow-up.

 

Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation of Community Development Projects

  • Importance of participatory monitoring and evaluation of community development projects
  • Indicators in a community development project
  • How to conduct participatory M&E
  • Understanding participatory M&E tools

 

TRAINING CUSTOMIZATION

This training can be customized for your institution or delivered at your preferred location upon request. For training customization, contact us through
Email: info@ vitalextralearning.com
Telephone:
+234 (0) 8038 066705,
+234 (0) 9039055940
+254 707 053 111

LANGUAGE
English

_ South Africa _

Register for any of our short courses in South Africa and stand an opportunity for a 1 day visit to National Zoological Gardens of South Africa, Mandela house (Soweto) and Apartheid Museum (Johannesburg) for free!

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