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BAOBAB
provides
- a learning
facility for development managers and practitioners worldwide
- access to
a support network and exchange of ideas for learners and development
practitioners.
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details...
BAOBAB offers...
- Interactive
learning facilities/modules for self guided learning
in:
- Development
Design
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Approach and methodology
- Ecological
dimension
- Economic
dimension
- Socio-cultural
dimension
- Political-institutional
dimension
- Roles
of projects / programmes and external funders
- Project
Cycle Management
- Analytical
methods in planning
- Logical
Framework planning
- Managing
implementation (including
operational planning, organising, monitoring, evaluation)
- Facilitation
and Consulting
- Theories/concepts
(including Gestalt- and complexity theories and practice)
- Communciation
- Group/team
working (including conflict management and intercultural
management)
- Procedures/Tools
- Process
skills
- The
facilitator/consultant
- Practicalities
of facilitated events
- Comprehensive
handbooks on a development management system, developed
and used over the past 13 years for training development managers
from Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.
Topics covered:
- Design
of development interventions
- Project/programme
cycle management (planning and implementation)
- Facilitation
- A
Resources Centre listing books, periodical articles,
journals, and other websites of interest to development workers.
- Support
to BAOBAB users in the practical application of the development
management approaches and tools offered. This includes advice
and comments from BAOBAB staff in response to users' queries,
referrals to other sources of expertise, and the networking of
users with other users working in similar projects or programmes
and facing similar challenges.
Individual attention and support is available to BAOBAB users
enrolled in training courses offered by BAOBAB staffers, and who
use BAOBAB for preparation and revision purposes.
BAOBAB material
has been compiled and refined by an international
group of development management trainers.
In 2000
Baobab conducted a survey of the impact of its training on South
African trainees. Click here for the results in the Training
Impact Survey 2000.
BAOBAB's aims
Baobab promotes
politically conscious development processes based on the ethics
of humanism. Development requires suitable approaches to deal with
its complexity, as much as interventions (e.g. projects, programmes)
require focused approaches to be effective and efficient.
Baobab aims for
- development
interventions that tackle the real problems of people, especially
the poor
- changes appropriate
to the local situation, its potentials, and socio-cultural context
- professionalism
and sensitivity in facilitation on the part of development interveners
The development
management methodology makes a clear distinction between the responsibilities
of intervenors - for example development managers / workers in projects
and programmes - and those of the people / beneficiaries, in order
that the energies and potentials are combined productively in partnership
arrangements to tackle the problems of the world's poor.
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