Centre for African Family Studies

START Date: 24/10/2011

END Date: 04/11/2011

Introduction:
The increasingly fast moving and competitive environment we face in the 21st century demands greater leadership and management from people in order to make organizations prosper. Various factors inside and outside the organization affect performance and contribute to an organisation’s results. Throughout Africa, dynamic leaders and managers of RH and HIV/AIDS programmes are seeking practical assistance in leading and managing their organizations and programmes. The reality of the HIV/AIDS epidemic requires that RH and HIV/AIDS programmes are well designed and managed in order to achieve desired results.

This two-week course will enhance modern leadership and management techniques for those dedicated to achieving organization and program success in the areas of RH and HIV&AIDS. The course will cover content including enhancing and institutionalizing visionary leadership and management techniques, leading organizational change, strategic planning amongst others. The course is designed for senior programme managers and executives of government, NGOs and civil society working within the RH or HIV&AIDS health sectors.

Language: English

Focus:

• Leadership traits, characteristics and approaches
• Vision: Key to Leadership covering Development individual vision and shared vision
• Systems Thinking and seeing the big picture
• Strategic leadership and management
• Relationship management:
  o    Team building
  o    Negotiation skills
  o    Conflict management
  o    Communication
  o    Coaching and mentoring
• Leading change and development
• Good governance
• Developing sustainable programmes
• Resource mobilization
• Becoming a learning organization
• Performance management

Benefits:

At the end of the course the participants will be able to:

• Enhance institutional visionary leadership and management
• Lead organizational change, development and sustainability
• Identify and mobilize resources for sustainable programmes
• Appreciate governance issues and take appropriate action to enhance governance of their organization
• Develop capabilities to manage relationship in the organization especially in respect to team building, negotiation and conflict management, coaching and mentoring, and communication   

Audience:The course is designed for senior programme managers and executives of government, NGOs and civil society working within the RH or HIV&AIDS health sectors.

Tuition ($):1500