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Capacity Development across Cultures

Facilitator: Ernest Antoine and Deborah Rhodes
Dates: 1 - 2 September (Wed - Thurs) 2010
Early Bird Registration:  21 July (Wed) 2010
 

Who is it for?

This course is suitable for both emerging and experienced practitioners, especially those engaged in capacity building activities within international aid projects.
 

Course Description 

How can Australians contribute to capacity development in culturally different contexts? Aid workers invariably operate within organizations and countries where behaviours are influenced by different values and perspectives. There are plenty of anecdotes to confirm that a lack of cultural understanding reduces the effectiveness of capacity development processes. Yet contemporary aid activities require a focus on capacity development and donors expect to see changes to organisational capacities. Until now, little guidance has been available on how to understand or deal with the challenges. This program is based on the premise that understanding culture and the influence of culture on individuals and organizations is integral to capacity development approaches.
 
In Papua New Guinea, for example, can the wantok system be regarded as a capacity that can be harnessed to achieve positive change? In Indonesia, is the focus on “saving face” within groups and communities an advantage or a disadvantage for capacity development? This workshop uses concepts of culture to enhance understanding of capacity, capacity development processes and the role of external facilitators. It is envisaged that this will generate new approaches for aid practitioners and managers.
  

Course Content

  • Definition of capacity through varied cultural perspectives;
  • The influence of culture on capacity development processes for individuals, organizations, sectors and countries;
  • Interpreting and designing aid activities through a cultural lens;
  • Competencies for cross-cultural understanding;
  • Competencies for undertaking capacity development processes;
  • Implications of culture for monitoring and evaluating capacity development activities.
 

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course participants will have increased understanding of:
  • The concept of capacity;
  • The processes of capacity development;
  • How cultural values influence understanding about individual, organisational, sectoral and national capacity;
  • How cultural values affect changes to capacity;
  • The relevance of cultural differences on aid-funded capacity development processes;
  • The competencies required by aid workers involved in capacity development;
  • Approaches for managing capacity development activities within culturally diverse contexts.
 

Course Fees

TBA 
  

Venue

IDSS Pty Ltd
Level 12, 60 Albert Road
SOUTH MELBOURNE  VIC  3205
AUSTRALIA
 

Registration:

Participants are requested to read the IDSS Training Policy before applying for registration/enrolment.

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To register/enrol, download the Enrolment Form here and email your completed form through to training@idss.com.au
 
For additional information please contact:
 
Ruth Garner
Phone: + 61 8 8919 9767
Fax: + 61 8 8919 9750

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