Khanya-aicdd: Managing for Impact in Development

 What is 'Managing for Impact?'

The African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd) is an African centre of expertise on community-driven development and sustainable livelihoods. Khanya-aicdd is committed to a transformation process which fundamentally addresses socio-economic inequalities and the needs of the poor. It also seeks sustainable African solutions to African problems, while learning from best practice elsewhere.

Managing towards impact (M4I) is a holistic approach to managing development initiatives. It integrates a diverse range of existing processes, methodologies and tools to address common challenges and contribute to enhancing development effectiveness.

M4I involves strengthening capacities (skills, knowledge, systems etc.) and conditions (including formal and informal policies, principles, values etc).

About the Training

The overall purpose of the workshop is to continue to develop and strengthen the capacity of individual service providers and practitioners within Eastern & Southern Africa to support pro poor projects/programmes to effectively manage toward impact.

Specific objectives include:

• Enhancing the skills and knowledge of service providers and practitioners on what managing for impact means and how to put it into practice; and
• Identifying service providers and practitioners willing to continue to collaborate with one another and pro-poor initiatives beyond the training workshop through a managing for impact network

The workshop will include theories and backgrounds; methodologies and tools related to the core areas of the managing for impact approach. The core topics which will be treated in detail include strategic and operational planning and participatory monitoring and evaluation, with the managing for impact perspective.

Cost

The expected contribution from each participant is R20 000 and this amount contributes towards the training cost including accommodation, meals, training materials and stationery, tuition , local travel expenses, fieldwork costs and other related workshop expenses. However, participants are expected to cover their travel expenses from their home place to the training venue and return. Participants are also advised to bring additional funds to cover incidental expenses (such as telephone costs, laundry, etc).

To apply:

Please complete the application form & participant profile if you wish to be considered for the training workshop. Kindly return the completed form to masebotsa [at] khanya-aicdd [dot] org or fax to 051 430 8322 by no later than 29 January 2010.

Applications submitted after this date will not be accepted.

As this is not an entry-level training workshop, participants selected will be expected to have had basic training and at least six months experience working with pro poor initiatives and facilitating participatory planning, monitoring, evaluation and learning processes.

Applicants will be notified about their selection by the second week of February 2010. A formal letter may be sent, upon request, to support visa application processes.

For more information, go to; www.khanya-aicdd.org