Specially
Tailored Training Programmes
Overview
In addition
to its regular training calendar, ILI-ACLE is also involved
in various special projects. Some key examples include:
The
Diploma Programme in Legislative Processes and Parliamentary
Systems: Parliament of the Blue Nile State (2007)
ILI-ACLE
was commissioned by Development Associates, Inc., through
funding provided by USAID, to conduct a diploma programme
from February 5-April 27, 2007 on Legislative Processes
and Parliamentary Systems for 15 Members of Parliament from
the Blue Nile State in Sudan's Three Areas. The specially
tailored training was conducted in Arabic and English and
was preceded by a needs assessment visit to the Blue Nile
State. The programme provided the parliamentarians with
a set of basic legislative tools to support them in effectively
passing legislation, and participating equally to help guide
parliamentary administration and resolve policy issues crucial
to the success of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA).
Seminar
on Promoting Government Integrity and Anti-Corruption: Tanzania
Ethics Secretariat (2007)
This seminar examined elements
leading to failure in public-sector management. It was tailored
to the needs of a group of ten investigation officers from
across Tanzania, working under the Ethics Secretariat of
the Office of the President.
Seminar on Alternative
Dispute Resolution: Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority
(TCRA) (2007)
This one-week seminar was
specially tailored for the six members of the TCRA Complaints
Committee. It is an appeals committee and most of the members
of this committee are board members. The training specifically
focused on the effective use of ADR mechanisms to handle
complaints between consumers and communication operators.
The week featured a cross-section of faculty and presenters
and included a visit to the Uganda Communications Committee.
The Austrian Development
Programme Scholarship Fund (2006-2007)
In conjunction with the
Austrian Development Cooperation, ILI-ACLE offered 87 scholarships
to lawyers and other professionals from Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda
and Burundi working in the areas of Peace Building and Conflict
Resolution. 14 seminars were selected for this programme,
including Procurement, Mediation, and the Role of National
and Judicial institutions in Peace Building and Security.
Ministry of Finance
Anti-Corruption Training (2006)
This was a short
project on request from the Ugandan Ministry of Finance,
Planning and Economic Development to conduct two specially
tailored seminars for around 30 of their staff members.
The seminars were: “The Legal and Institutional Framework for Curbing
Fraud and Corruption”; and “Corruption and Fraud: Detection
and Prevention in Financial Management.”
District Seminars
on the Rights-Based Approach to Development (2006)
This project ran
from March – July 2006, beginning with a Training of Trainers (TOT)
for key individuals within Civil Society Organisations (CSOs)
district networks in Eastern and Northern Uganda. These
individuals then taught the Rights-Based Approach to Development,
under the guidance of experienced ILI faculty, in their
respective districts. Funded by the Human Rights and Good
Governance Programmes of the Danish International Development
Agency (HUGGO DANIDA), the seminars took place in six districts
– Kitgum, Katakwi, Kapchorwa, Moroto, Pader and Pallisa.
Over 200 members of CSOs and Community Based Organisations
(CBOs) were trained.
Legislative Drafting
Diploma: Kigali, Rwanda (2005-2006)
ILI-ACLE was contracted
to train a cross section of lawyers from the Rwandan public
sector in drafting skills. The programme benefited over
28 participants from key ministries and other government
institutions. The programme, which was funded by UNDP, ran
five two-week seminars which began in 2005 and concluded
in the first quarter of 2006 with 20 participants obtaining
diplomas in Legislative Drafting.
National
Procurement Training Programme – Rwanda (2005)
Located in Kigali, Rwanda,
this project was a follow-up on the previous procurement
training conducted by ILI-ACLE in partnership with the School
of Finance and Banking in Rwanda. To concretize procurement
reforms and ensure full professionalism in procurement practices
nationwide, ILI-ACLE was contracted to provide nationwide
training to all procurement professionals at the central
government and district level. The project, which benefited
close to 1,000 procurement professionals in Rwanda, was
offered in two parts: a diploma programme and a series of
short seminars. The diploma programme was delivered over
a three-month period, while a series of simultaneous seminars
(in both French and English) were offered over a two-week
period. This project was unprecedented in scale on the sub-Saharan
African continent, in that all procurement professionals
nationwide were subjected to an intensive training programme
over a half year period.
International Project
Procurement and Contract Negotiation Seminar (2005)
Under a Memorandum of Understanding
between ILI-ACLE and the Rwanda School of Finance and Banking
(SFB), the ILI-ACLE and SFB jointly organized and conducted
a two-week procurement training programme for Rwandan lawyers
on behalf of the Rwandan National Tender Board (NTB). The
same training programme had also been offered in August
2004.
Government Planning
and Budgeting Training Programme (2005)
Following an international
competitive bidding process, ILI-ACLE won a bid with the
Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (Uganda)
under the EFMP II Project to deliver a six-month budgeting
training programme to the Government Planning and Capacity
Building programme under Parliament. The training covered
the following areas: Utility and Regulatory Analysis, Sector
Planning, Management of Foreign Aid, Putting Employment
at the Centre of Public Investment and Poverty Reduction
Processes, Output Oriented Budgeting and Result Oriented
Management, and Training of Trainers. Beneficiaries of this
training were staff from Parliament, line Ministries and
statutory institutions of the Government of Uganda. The
funding was provided by the NORDIC Development Fund.
COMESA Trade in
Services (2005)
ILI-ACLE conducted
two seminars on Trade in Services in April 2005. The
first training was held in Kampala at the Institute's
premises and the second was conducted in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia. The overall objective of the two training seminars
was to review trade in services under the WTO and to
lay the groundwork for a COMESA-wide services agreement.
The theme of the training was “WTO plus COMESA,” i.e.
focusing on building upon what is taking place under
the auspices of the WTO and creating a framework for
a COMESA-wide agreement.
COMESA Rules of
Origin (2005)
In April 2005,
under the same sub-contract, ILI-ACLE also conducted
the COMESA Rules of Origin training in Kampala. The main
objective of the training was to enable participants
to implement the COMESA and EAC Rules of Origin, to understand
what the ROO are, the policy behind them, and how they
compare with standards of international instruments and
the provisions of other preferential arrangements. In
addition to the Revenue and Customs officers (attending
2004 – 2005), this training
was also essential for officials engaged as trade policy
advisors to national policy makers.
Applying
Human Rights to Governance and Development (2001 – 2005)
This programme was commissioned
by the Human Rights and Democratisation Programme of DANIDA
to provide instructional training for local government,
district officials, and civil society in the area of human
rights under Uganda's decentralized framework. ILI-ACLE
developed and published a comprehensive instructional training
handbook and facilitators' guidebook covering the rights-based
approach to development, and has provided training using
the instructional manuals on national and international
human rights frameworks to participants located throughout
Uganda.
USAID Global Competitiveness
Hub Project (2004-2008)
Under a sub-contract between
ILI and Bearing Point mentioned above, ILI-ACLE has been
providing broad training and technical assistance to participants
from 18 countries. The seminars fall under the auspices
of the U.S. Government's Trade for African Development and
Enterprise Initiative and seeks to mobilize U.S. and African
partners from the public and private sector to support specific
trade capacity building needs.
Rwanda District
Training (2004)
In 2004, with funding provided
by the World Bank, ILI-ACLE was contracted by the Rwanda
NTB to design and offer extensive district training in procurement
(applying modernised Rwandese procurement regulations) in
the following districts - Kigali, Gitarama and Kibuye. The
total number of beneficiaries for the training conducted
was 135.
Austrian Development
Cooperation Regional Scholarship Programme (2003)
In 2003, the ILI-ACLE received
a generous grant from the Austrian Development Cooperation
towards a regional good governance training programme to
benefit public and private sector lawyers and related professionals
from Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Kenya. The seminars, offered
in English and French, covered some of the following subject
areas: Mediation (with a focus on peaceful coexistence for
Rwanda, and Burundi), Government Integrity and Anti-corruption,
Human Rights and the Global Economy, Legislative Drafting,
HIV/AIDS: Legal and Business Issues, and Regional Integration.
The grant focused on improving participation of women and
underprivileged groups (in Burundi and Rwanda), and was
the third grant awarded to ILI-ACLE by the Austrian Government.
Legislative Drafting
Diploma (2003)
ILI-ACLE was commissioned
by Development Associates, Inc, through funding provided
by USAID, to conduct a diploma programme in legislative
drafting for Members of Parliament, parliament's legislative
council, the staff of key parliamentary committees, and
legal staff in strategic public and private institutions
in Uganda. The three-month diploma programme, the first
of its kind offered in Africa, emphasized building skills
through intensive study and hands-on work on important legislative
issues.
EU Microprojects
Programme (2003)
Following a competitive
bidding process, the European Union Microprojects Programme,
in tandem with the Uganda Ministry for Local Government,
contracted the ILI-ACLE to develop a series of training
manuals related to their decentralization and local government
capacity building initiative in Uganda. The training manuals,
developed by ILI-ACLE, focus on the areas of project appraisal,
project monitoring and evaluation and include a seminar
component to train local government officials in Uganda.
Norwegian Agency
for Development Cooperation and ILI-ACLE Support for Institutional
Capacity Building (2001 -2003)
The project involved building
local capacity of ILI-ACLE through Training of Trainers
programmes (TOT) conducted by a team of experts from Uganda
and the sub-Saharan African region. The TOT seminars developed
a strong nucleus of local personnel for various ILI-ACLE
programmes.
Rwanda Development
Bank Training (2001)
This project provided training
in risk analysis and management for senior officials in
the Rwandan banking sector and other key private sector
institutions such as MTN Rwanda. Funding was provided by
the Rwanda Development Bank.
Continuing Legal
Education Project II (2001)
Funded by the Austrian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the project was a continuation
of the earlier initiative funded by the Austrian government.
It involved training of mid to high-level public and private
sector lawyers and related professionals from Uganda and
the surrounding sub-Saharan African region, on commercial
subjects broadly related to private-sector development.
Training, Capacity
Building and Networking Activities on Legal Aspects of Debt
and Financial Management, Uganda (various activities between
1999 and 2003)
Funded by the United Nations
Institute for Training and Research, the programme provided
three sub-regional workshops: Debt Management and National
Budgeting, Drafting Specific Clauses in Loan Agreements,
and the Role of a Lawyer in Debt Negotiations for participants
from a number of institutions in East, Central, Western
and Southern Africa.
Continuing
Legal Education Project, Uganda (1998 – 1999)
The project, which was
funded by the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, involved
training of mid- to high-level public and private-sector
lawyers and related professionals from Uganda and the surrounding
sub-Saharan African region on commercial subjects, including
international commercial arbitration, broadly related to
private sector development.
Induction Course
for Ugandan State Attorneys (1998)
This World Bank-funded
programme prepared and conducted legal/induction courses
for newly admitted state attorneys at the Directorate of
Public Prosecution in the Ministry of Justice.
Continuing Legal
Education training Programme for Public and Private-Sector
Lawyers in Uganda and Sub-Saharan Africa (1997-1998)
Funded by the World Bank,
the project involved training of public and private-sector
lawyers and related professionals in a number of commercial
subjects. During the one and a half year programme ILI-ACLE
funded over 500 participants from a cross section of countries
in sub-Saharan Africa. The programme was the foundation
for the Institute's establishment in Africa.
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