IDEA invites you, the international development practitioner, to participate in our upcoming, leading edge working session. This Washington-based training program, International Development Leaders in Action: Elevating Performance and Effectiveness, is designed to enhance your capacity to make a difference in your development organization, NGO, consulting company or business. If you are out to make a major difference in our field or gain traction in your international development career, this Working Session is for you. The program will provide you with:
- Actionable insights into the source of leadership and performance limitations
- Tools for enhancing performance and effectiveness
- Ability to determine what would be a major breakthrough for your organization
- An accessible model for a new paradigm in international development.
The next working session will take place on April 19 and 20, 2012, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at aWashington, D.C. location to be determined. Follow-up coaching and mentoring groups are also available to support participants to achieve the outcomes they define in this program.
Companies and organizations represented at recent working sessions include:
AZMJ CARANA Corporation
Cardno Emerging Markets Checchi and Company Consulting
Chemonics International Glevum Associates
Fintrac Kaizen Consulting
Making Cents International Segura Associates
Weidemann International Environmental Protection Agency
This seems very interesting. Where can I find information on costs and registration?
Many thanks,
Beatriz
Dear Beatriz,
Thanks for your enquiry. We assume that you meant the Development Leaders in Action Working Session. The cost for the two-day session is $300. You can register by simply letting us know that you will be there. You can bring your check to the Fintrac offices where we will be holding the working session.
Best regards,
IDEA staff
What is wlmeoce about this discussion is that it provides an opportunity to consider how we should combine all the arms of our international activity in places like Afghanistan, where we have committed our armed services to conflict. DfID cannot remain apart. How much of DfID’s budget is spent in Afghanistan, and on what, are questions to be decided in the light of what Afghanistan’s overwhelming needs are and how DfID can usefully contribute to the UK’s collective response to them. They are not questions for DfID alone any more than fighting the Taleban or Al Qaeda are for the MoD alone.The same approach applies elsewhere. If we continue to be interested in being useful in the world, we should look in a similar, co-ordinated way at how we deploy resources in other countries which evidently need support.Aid is rarely a pure form of doing good. It makes an important statement to givers and recipients about our standing in relation to the people who run their country. Badly governed countries may need more effort in governance than water. With limited resources, we may have to choose which to assist. We may have to recognise that helping one without the other is a waste of effort, and do neither. We also need to recognise where our interests lie, which of the possible recipients most merit our limited funding, and how we best combine with others. These are questions of international, not just aid policy.