- May 5, 2016
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- Category: Current News
The MEFMI Fellows Facilitation and Consultancy Skills workshop commenced on Monday 2 May 2016 at the Royal Swazi Spa Resort and Convention Center in Esulwini, Swaziland. The workshop will end on Tuesday 10 May 2016.
The workshop which is being attended by 15 Candidate Fellows and the MEFMI Human Resources Manager and Public Relations Manager was officially opened by Mr. Bertram Stewart, the Principal Secretary in the Swaziland Ministry of Economic Planning And Development. Also at the official opening was the MEFMI Executive Director, Dr Caleb Fundanga. Dr Fundanga gave the opening remarks.
In his opening remarks, Dr Caleb Fundanga outlined the objectives of the workshop. He pointed out that MEFMI is developing a pull of consultants that the region can call upon to address various capacity gaps. He pointed out that imparting consulting skills and knowledge to the Fellows will prepare them to effectively and confidently undertake consultancies as well as facilitate at MEFMI regional courses and in-country missions.
Dr Fundanga bemoaned the very low number of Fellows from some MEFMI member countries. He stated that the absence of Candidate Fellows from the workshop host country, Swaziland, should be addressed. He called upon both the Central Bank of Swaziland and the Ministry of Economic Planning and Development to respond to the call for nomination of Candidate Fellows for the 10th intake. The call will be sent out by 30th November 2016.
In his official opening address the Permanent Secretary in the Swaziland Ministry of Economic Planning and Development stated that the Fellows Development Programme should be viewed by all MEFMI member countries as an important skills development programme for the region. He said that the programme should be viewed as a unique opportunity for the region to nurture its own crop of experts in various fields of specialisation, and equip them with soft skills to enable the region to have effective consultants and facilitators.
The participatory and practical oriented workshop will focus on empowering participants with skills on how to manage learning processes through hands on, audio, visual and explorative learning activities. These will relate to aspects of facilitation and consultancy skills.