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Through
our Leadership and Empowerment project, we have trained
some of the brightest future policy leaders in the sub-region,
especially women and youth, over the last five years. The
programme emphasises personal empowerment, organisational
development and transfer of skills, and the faculty consists of
some of the leading expert trainers in the continent, based on
our partnership with the African Women’s Leadership Institute.
Graduates of this two-week, intensive programme, now number over
400, and many have gone on to hold important positions in
government, the non-governmental sector, academia and the
professions.
Based
on the success of this programme and the feedback from
beneficiaries, now runs several other exchange programmes and
fellowships. The public policy leadership fellowship is a
short-term fellowship ranging from one to three months and it
provides opportunities for civil society leaders and activities
to reflect on their work and experience. |
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Equally,
the Democracy & Diversity exchange programme focuses
specifically on sharing knowledge and experience between West
Africa and South Asia, and is run in partnership with the Centre
for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi, India.
The Graduate Fellowship programme for Women Lawyers
facilitates training on human rights, governance, development
and gender and is run in partnership with Kituo cha Katiba,
the East African Centre for Constitutional Development.
Beneficiaries of the programme undertake formal postgraduate
training at a UK university and many have gone on to occupy
important positions in government and civil society in their
countries of origin. |
