News - IMA International

Kigali, December 2011 - Summer 2012

Supporting the Rwandan Coffee Sector: Gender Equality at Cooperative Leadership Level

Our lead consultant in People Management, Linzi Moore is working with 2 leading INGOs to design facilitation sessions that encourage women to become more involved at a leadership level in the coffee cooperatives of Rwanda. The modules will be paired with technical sessions that help farmers get the best quality coffee from their trees, and will work with both husbands and wives to ensure all parties are on board with any changes needed in the family to support the women's leadership roles.

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, December 2011

Planning, ME in a Results-Based Management Environment course delivered for UNECA

Dr. Patrick Spaven designed and delivered a 4 day course focussed on Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation in a Results-Based Management Environment. UNECA has a clearly defined RBM system, but UNECA's Office of Strategic Planning and Programme Management (OPM) had identified that this was not being effectively utilised by Project and Programme Managers. IMA was therefore contracted to design and deliver a tailored training course to support the mainstreaming of effective RBM.

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September 2011

Monitoring and Evaluation scheduled course in Cape Town

The IMA International M&E course continues to provide a solid foundation in monitoring and evaluation to participants from Nigeria through to Malaysia, addressing key issues facing M&E practitioners, such as developing an M&E plan and tracking high level results. The course also continues to allow specific issues that individuals are facing in their current work to be addressed through individual tutorials and early identification of particular concerns and challenges. This is all set against the beautiful background of the Table Mountain providing participants with ample opportunity to enjoy the various delights when not engaged on the course.

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Cape Town, South Africa, September 2011

A successful Results-based ME course delivered in Cape Town

The IMA RBME course was successfully delivered in a new training centre overlooking the water-front. The trainers were Patrick Spaven and Mick Howes, who were able to draw on their extensive experience of the design and implementation of results-based monitoring and evaluation systems.

The course provided a clear, step-by-step approach for those seeking either to introduce an organization-wide approach to results based M&E for the first time, or to overhaul and re-focus their current systems. Participants were taken through a series of broad principles that apply to RBME and shown, through practical case work, how these could be applied at organizational and national levels. Proceedings concluded with an opportunity for participants to relate what they had learnt to their own specific responsibilities.

There were 13 participants, including three Nigerians from the oil and gas sector, and two Botswanans from the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning. In addition there were representatives of a Danida human rights programme in Nepal; an NGO working on reproductive health in Pakistan (Pathfinders); an NGO based in Qatar and funded by the Qatar Foundation; the TB surveillance programme in Sudan, the WFP in Tanzania; Irish Aid in Mozambique; UNDP in Malawi and the Social Development Department of the Western Cape Provincial Government. The end of course evaluation conveyed a strong sense of satisfaction with the contents and delivery of the course.

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July 2011

Knowledge Management training in Lagos, Nigeria

IMA International was invited by the Partnership for Transforming Health Systems Phase II (PATHS2) to develop a tailor-made Knowledge Management course to be delivered in Nigeria. PATHS2 is a 6-year national programme funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) to lead health system strengthening effort in Nigeria. The course provided an introduction to Knowledge Management (KM) for officials from the Lagos State Ministry of Health (LSMOH); staff members from the Lagos office of the DFID PATHS2 project; and KM specialists from other PATHS2 state offices, and representatives from the head office in Abuja. The course was delivered by Richard Bostock and Mick Howes of IMA International who together tailored the course for this group using discussion with the client, mind mapping and building on previous KM courses IMA has delivered. The underlying purpose of the course was to teach participants primarily by directly exposing them to something approximating the real life situations in which they would subsequently find themselves; with only occasional recourse to more conventional power-point based exposition of general principles and procedures. This work continues to build on IMA's expertise of delivering Knowledge Management training both for tailor-made groups and on our scheduled open training programmes, with the next Knowledge Management (KM) course taking place from 24 - 27 October in Nairobi, Kenya.

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