The lack of effective leadership and management are undoubtedly the main causes of weak performance, weak governance and unsustainable development.  A key to working towards improving performance and delivering better governance is ethical leadership and effective management.  Leaders play a key role, not only as visionaries and models of integrity in their individual capacity, but also institutionally identifying, energizing and seeing through reforms. Vision, effectiveness and integrity are the core of effective leadership.  Translating vision into meaningful policies, plans and programmes and ensuring efficient delivery of public services are important elements in good leadership and management.  This short course discusses the above components, highlights principles and presents examples. It further highlights the strong linkages that exist between good leadership, management, good governance and capacity building.

Development is achieved through successful projects.  These projects may be small or large in scale and may have local, regional or even national level impact; the principles covered in this course will apply to projects of all types. Projects in turn are the building blocks in the implementation of development strategies.  For development to be sustainable, project planning requires acute attention right from the inception through to completion.  The key lies in systematic planning and result based project management. This requires undertaking an approach that involves thinking, planning and managing strategically.  This short course aims at building capacity among participants and equip them with an in-depth understanding of the analytical skills for effective project planning ad management.  The training workshop will cover important issues like project feasibility, scheduling, resource allocation, risk management and result based project monitoring and evaluation. 

This short course is targeted at those who are interested in enhancing their knowledge of projects involving public-private-partnership.  The training is intended to build capacity of the participants to protect the interests of the public/government, when negotiating partnership projects with the private sector or monitoring the implementation of such projects.  In fulfilling this objective this course will review and discuss in detail the modalities of partnership between public and the private sectors. It examines various issues related to partnership and assesses the partnership options and financial implications thereof.  It will also systematically outline various stages in the process of developing a partnership project.

Procurement is an exercise to select the agency/ies to execute a desired work, supply, equipments, goods or perform a desired service.  Procurement knowledge is very important as it acts as a driver in the implementation of projects.  This training programme explores, explains and clarifies the procurement procedures with special reference to the World Bank and ADB requirements covering among other points the five Rs of good procurement; right quality, right quantity, right price, right source and right time.  It will also present the principles of contract management.  In the context of procurement, a brief overview of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) will be also presented.

This short course will emphasize the need for Human Resource Development (HRD) and capacity building as a prerequisite for achieving the objective of good governance.  Highlighting the need for capacity building to achieve success, the course identifies training as an important component of HRD and HRD as an important component of capacity building.  The course then, will outline that a comprehensive approach to capacity building should be directed at three levels, namely; individual, organizational and system level.  Although the significance of all these levels is recognized and discussed, the emphasis in this course will be on capacity building at the individual level, which entails human resource development and training.  In the context of training, ethical and moral dimensions will be highlighted.