To improve leadership capabilities in mid-career professionals working in nutrition-relevant sectors
Description
The conceptual document that outlines why leadership development should be an important functional capability to develop in the nutrition fraternity in Africa will be written by a core team of African Nutrition Leadership Programme (ANLP) alumni.
Two 10-day experiential leadership development workshops will be designed and hosted in Nigeria and South Africa. Participants will be mid-career professionals working in various sectors in nutrition and will be selected by a competitive process. Participants are exposed to a range of leadership topics, and the programme is designed to provide an intensive matrix structure that provides sufficient challenge to participants to facilitate personal growth. Topics include leadership and management, self-awareness, reflection, communication, advocacy, and multisector collaboration among others. Transfer of learning will be achieved by multiple reflective techniques during the workshop. The workshops will focus on individual leadership growth applied to each individual’s unique working environment.
We will also design and host two workshops that aim to combine leadership capability development with technical capacity development. This will also illustrate that leadership is not a position but rather the ability to implement change in a complex environment. A key element of these workshops is that participants will gain insight into how leadership relates to implementing the change necessary in nutrition and to provide a clear picture of the entry points participants have to lead change in nutrition within their organisational mandates.
For the online leadership development workshop, we will design and host a 10-module blended workshop that runs over a period of 13 weeks. Participants will apply to attend and will be selected via a competitive process. The workshop will be a combination of self-paced learning using materials that have been developed for similar Francophone workshops and weekly online group engagements. A typical module will contain a number of narrated slide shows, some reading material, a short focused assignment, a contribution to a discussion forum and a reflection on learning. Facilitated weekly live online sessions will supplement the self-paced materials and contribute to acquiring networking skills in an online environment.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Leadership development in Africa
Description
The purpose of the African Nutrition Leadership Programme (ANLP) is to develop individual and institutional leadership capabilities in nutrition across the African continent. During 2022, the ANLP committed to developing a conceptual document outlining why leadership development should be an important functional capability to develop in the nutrition fraternity in Africa. Between January 2022 and December 2023, the ANLP committed to hosting seven leadership development workshops to develop a variety of leadership capabilities in 130 high-potential, mid-career professionals working in nutrition-relevant sectors to empower them to lead from where they stand, and committed to eliminating all forms of malnutrition on the African continent.
GNR assessment
| Verification status |
Verified
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| SMARTness index |
Lower moderate
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Details
| Target population characteristic |
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| Global nutrition target(s) |
Anaemia
Low birth weight
Exclusive breastfeeding
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
Childhood overweight
Adult diabetes
Raised blood pressure
Salt/sodium intake
Adult obesity
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Enabling >
Operational
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| N4G Summit theme(s) |
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Proportion of individuals who have reported an improvement in their leadership capabilities |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | There is no baseline assessment since we qualitativly assess "improvement" | 2021 |
| Target | 80% | December 2023 |
Progress
| Value | Measurement date | Status | |
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| Progress report | Number of participants having reported an improvement in their leadership capabilities | October 2023 |
Progress not able to be assessed
Despite the commitment maker’s active participation in the process, they were unable to provide the required information about the baseline data or the progress indicator's updated (latest) level or status, or the data provided were not in a format allowing calculation of progress.
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