Question & Answers
African Mayors ask about LED
How is local leadership developed in LED programmes ?
Which kind of trainings exist on local leadership in an LED process ?
Charles Kabinga Mumena
President Local Government Association of Zambia
How is local leadership developed in LED programmes ?
Hello Charles,Leadership development comes in many ways of course.. if you Google you'll find many companies who offer good workshops. Of course leadership approaches differ from continent to continent due to cultural influences of managing people. My approach to Africa people development is aimed at managerial competencies in stead of managerial knowledge. For example when in an institution people delegate not enough I train the participants in delegation competencies through real case discussions, role plays and so on. The same goes for other managerial competencies. This approach proved to work for all the private and public institutions in Africa with the workshops I organize for them. As this is just a small part of an answer to your question I'd suggest you contact me privately to discuss more possibilities of leaders and managers development in Africa or look at my few published articles on this matter Kind regards,Lex Lindeman
LED leadership training
Dear Charles,
Our experience in South Africa suggests that LED leadership is the most important factor of success. What we done over the past 5 years is train the leaders (politicians, public sector, private sector, NGO) for 3 days prior to engaging in an actual LED programme. So the theory is immediately followed by doing a real case, where the theory is applied.
Follow-up support is essential to assist leaders and other stakeholders to establish their roles, get used to their functions and eliminate the bad habits. Else, all just falls back into the old comfortable behaviour pattern.
see www.red-x.co.za for more on our approach
Best wishes,
John
LED leadership training starts with Get Local workshops
For us Leadership training in LED starts with GET LOCAL workshop which exposes LED practitioners to Potentials, prospects and challenges of development in the locality. thereafter a business development committee is established. this provides a platform for interactions between the public and private sectors. we also identify key skill needs of members & try to meet these needs and of course the process continues.
LED in Nigeria
Thank you, Mr Gbate for your comment. I would like to add to your comment to make it easier for our international network members to understand the specific context. You are describing the process how LED has been introduced in Niger, Nassarawa and Plateau State in Nigeria.The aim of the LED interventions was to bring representatives of the public sector, the private sector and civil society together into a forum where they can jointly work together for an improved local economy. These forums called "Business Development Committees (BDC)" have been established in many Nigerian Local Government Areas. The BDCs deal with issues that are constraining economic development. They work together to improve the business environment for the local SMEs, lobby with State and National Government and other stakeholders and jointly identify opportunities for the local economy to grow.Business Development Committees in Nigeria are a successful vehicle for public-private dialogue and brought about a series of success stories for Local Economic Development. They established links to local radio stations for small business programms and have hostes public events as the Open business forum .
How is Local Government Involved?
On this Nigeria discussion, who initiates these BDCs? Are they demand led from the private sector, donor driven, how do they actually get formed, are members elected or is it the most active interested are self appointed? What is their governance structure and accountability and budgets? Who selects which are the issues to be prioritised and how? Who is paid to do what? What role to the local governments have? are they conveners, participants (active/passive?)? Are these one issue committees or are they embedded into the communities? How long is it envisaged they will last for? Is it that they identify somehow one topic to work on and that is used as an example? What level of effort/budget/skills are needed from the local community?This sounds an interesting approach to specific issues, please share more. Is it a GTZ initiative, if so has it been used in other countries?
Leadership in LED
Hi Charles, I am part of an African group that has developed specific training material for leadership training in LED. This training material has been delivered at municipal, provincial and also national (parliamentary) level.
I have also been part of the development team for a new African developed post graduate diploma and Masters degree in LED.
This is often a severely deficient part of LED programmes.
Regards
Rob
Leadership in LED
Hi Charles
Leadership is often overlooked in the context of LED.
Our team has leadership training material specific to LED. It has been delivered at local, provincial and national (Parliamentary) level.
I was also part of a team that has just developed a post grad diploma and a Masters degree in LED, and leadership is included.
You are welcome to email me on rob@smorfitt.co.za if you want more info.
Regards Rob
Thanks for information!
Thanks for information!
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