NGO leaders and development practitioners participate in IIRR’s year opener course on NGO Leadership, Development and Social Change

IIRR begins the year with an international training course on NGO Leadership, Development and Social Change (NGOLDSC) simultaneously happening in four Global Partnership Program sites, in which a total of 50 NGO leaders, development managers and practitioners from all over the world are expected to participate. The training program at the IIRR Yen Center in the Philippines began this week and will go on, as with the other three sites, until 6 February. Twelve NGO leaders and development managers from 10 countries are participating in the course in Silang. The objectives are: to extensively explore intercultural communications, team building, and leadership styles and assess strategic interventions at different levels – from grassroots to global – as demonstrated in the work of a number of NGOs and civil society organizations around the world. The course provides a systematic orientation to the Global Partnership's teaching-learning methods: student and team-centered learning, Internet-based conferencing, and other distance education tools, including the use of ‘Blackboard,’ a web-based educational software.