Strategic Planning and Proposal Writing Training Workshop for the East African NATCOMS for UNESCO.

Abstract

The National Commissions for UNESCO of the five East African Countries, namely, Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda at their training workshop held in November 2008 in Kigali agreed to collaborate in a joint Capacity Building Program (CBP) towards the attainment of enhanced visibility, effectiveness and efficiency. To this effect a three year CBP was developed. This is a report of the first training on Strategic Planning and Proposal Writing held under this collaboration, hosted by Uganda National Commission funded by UNESCO with support of the German National Commission and UNESCO. This report is divided into three major sections. Section one outlines the training objectives, identifies the participants at the training, their expectations, an analysis of their confidence levels and before and after the training and the methodology used. Section two provides a brief of the proceedings and, section three gives an overall picture of the training including evaluation and a way forward.