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Influential Leadership Training Workshop for African Women, Monrovia, Liberia

WACSI, a technical partner of the International Colloquium On Women's Empowerment, Leadership Development, International Peace and Security and the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) supported by the Ministry of Gender and Development, Liberia organised an “Influential Leadership” training workshop for 30 representatives of women’s groups across Africa. 

The overall objective of the workshop was to provide a core group of African women with strategic policy influencing and influential leadership skills. Also, the workshop was used to gauge the possibility of utilising the course content and handbook at the Angie Brooks International Women’s Leadership Centre based in Monrovia, Liberia.

The specific objectives of the workshop were:

  To enhance participants’ strategic thinking capabilities

  To provide participants policy analysis, formulation and implementation skills; and 

  To address challenges peculiar to governance and women’s leadership in Africa.

The training areas encompassed:

  1. Understanding Leadership                                                                
  2. Leadership Concepts and Theories
  3.  Leadership in Practice (Live Panel Discussion) 
  4. Introduction to Influential Leadership                                           
  5. Leadership and Policy Advocacy/Influencing 
  6. Mapping Entry Points for Policy Influencing

 Ten recommendations emanated from the workshop.

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