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Democratic Leadership Training Workshop - Female Medical Doctors
The DLTW - Female Medical Doctors Group was concluded successfully on the 30th of May 2009 at the ALF International Conference Centre, Ota - Ogun State. The Training was attended by 43 Female Medical Practitioners from both Public and Private Health Instituitons representing all the Six Geo-political zones of the country.
The workshop exposed participants to trainings on the principles and styles of leadership, ethics and professionalism, workings of a Democratic government, lobby and advocacy etc while also assisting in identifying innate leadership traits in participants through simulation exercises and role plays.
The Female Medical Doctors Group formed a network amongst themselves under the name "The Female Doctors Leadership Initiative". The network amonsgt other things will be the platform to execute the Group's Action Plan developed after the training. The Group Action Plan aims to vigorously conscientize Medical practtioners on the need to imbibe standard work ethics and proffesionalism.
For further enquiries on how you can be part of next DLTW, please contact the Program Officer, Owofadeju Imoleayo imoleayo@africaleadership.org or democraticleadership@africaleadership.org
Participants at the Workshop.
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ALF receives HP GET-IT Grant
(Graduate Entrepreneurship Training through IT)
As part of ALF’s commitment towards constant qualitative capacity building of young people towards acquiring basic requisite leadership skills, micro-enterpise development and basic business management skills with a sharpened IT-edge, the Africa Leadership Forum has been selected has a recipient of the HP GET-IT Grant.
GET-IT (Graduate Entrepreneurship Training through IT) is one of HP’s flagship social investment initiatives and helps young unemployed people and graduates – aged 16 to 25 – acquire the business and IT skills to enter professional life or to create their own businesses.
The GET-IT training initiative operates in 25 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and comprises a network of 70 GET-IT training centers. Initiated by HP, the programme is run in collaboration with the Micro-Enterprise Acceleration Institute (MEA-I) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Africa.GET-IT’s mission is to help young people master the dynamics of using of information technology in very small businesses.
ALF is expected to train about 5000 young un- or underemployed people and graduates aged 16 -25 to acquire the business and IT skills to enter professional life or to start their own businesses. The project is expected to kick-off fully before the end of the year.
Check back on this page for more details soon!!!
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Result of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library Inaugural Africa-wide Essay Competition |
The 1st Africa Wide Essay Competition on “Young people’s Perception of Human Security in Africa” organised for the Centre for Human Security of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library by the Africa Leadership Forum officially came to a close at the Prize Presentation Ceremony held at the Presidential Library Complex on the 5th of March 2009.
Click here for the pdf version of the summary of the Essay Competition.
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Summary Report of Baseline and Quarterly Socio-economic Survey of EDC Trainees
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Prior to the take-off of EDC Lagos, a baseline survey was conducted in April/May 2009 in each of the six states (Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, and Oyo states) of Southwest Nigeria which serves as the scope of EDC programme. This survey was designed to capture the status report on the state of unemployment, vocational skills, and entrepreneurship development programmes in the southwestern region of Nigeria.
Click here for the full version of the survey report
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Entrepreneurship Development Centre, Lagos
Click here for further details
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ALF Legislative Internship
Programme
2007 - 2009
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The Legislative Internship Programme
(LIP) is a programme of the ALF Parliamentary Support Institute
aimed at consolidating and institutionalizing the norms and
principles of liberal democracy in Nigeria. The programme is
specifically destic
Leigned to provide interested alumni of ALF Democraadership Training Workshop (DLTW) and other Nigerian young men and
women an opportunity to acquaint themselves with parliamentary norms
and processes with a view to encouraging them to take – up
parliamentary career or work as members of parliamentary support
staff. more .......
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Ayodele Aderinwale, Executive Director of the
Africa Leadership Forum receivesNational Honour |
For
his selfless efforts and enthusiasm at
hard-work and inputs to national
and regional development, Mr. Ayodele Aderinwale, was on the 20th
December conferred with the Nigerian National Honour, Member of
the Order of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (MFR).
The Honour was
conferred on him by the former President of Nigeria Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. The Nigerian National Honours are a set of orders and decorations
conferred upon Nigerians and friends of Nigeria.
The Honours were
instituted by the National Honors Act no. 5 of 1964, during the
First Republic to honour Nigerians from all walks of life, who have
rendered special and outstanding services in their calling, to the
benefit and progress of the nation.
We congratulate Mr.
Aderinwale for the achievement and wish him the very best in all his
undertakings.
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ALF/UNDP
Concludes Sub-Regional Consultative Meetings
on the ECOSOCC, the APRM and the MDGs |
The sub-regional
consultative meetings organized by the Africa Leadership Forum, in collaboration
with the UNDP, Regional Bureau for Africa, New York for African CSOs
on ECOSOCC, APRM and the MDGs came to a conclusion with the final
regional meeting in Addis Ababa Ethiopia on the 8th - 10th December
2006.
The meeting in
Addis was among others, reviewed all the inputs and contributions of
civil society organizations that participated in the sub-regional
conferences, and produced a clear and strategic
roadmap to engage the APRM and the MDGS.
The preliminary
report of the meeting is available on PDF (click here to download) a
full report will be available shortly.
follow link for more
informationand summary of conclusions for the Ota and Nairobi
Meetings)
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Technical Workshop on Union Government Study
(April
29 – 30, 2006) Meeting
successfully held!!! |
The
fourth Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union, at its
meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, in January 2005 took note of the
proposals for the creation of the posts of Ministers of Defence,
Foreign Affairs, Transport and Communications, Foreign Trade and the
cancellation of Customs and harmonization of custom tariffs among
Members States. click
here for more information
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