Training opportunities
EASUN provides various trainings to suit various key players in the civil society sector in East Africa.
The Facilitating Organisation Development (FOD) course, for instance, uniquely equips CSO leaders with skills for effective change management in their own organisations. Those who successfully complete the FOD course also have the chance of developing their practice to become OD consultants, based on approaches advanced by of one of the best known OD practicing establishments in Africa.
Other EASUN trainings include the Facilitation Skills for Fieldworkers (FAF) course, which is aimed at enabling individuals who intervene directly with grassroots communities to do so in ways that are participative, empowering, authentic, meaningful and beneficial to the community.
NGO Board training, on the other hand, was born of a three-year pilot study looking at leadership transitions in civil society organisations, which revealed the minimum role that NGO boards played in managing change and transitions in the institutions they led. The training is part of a package geared towards transforming leadership and other organisational practices in CSOs - an important path in building the capacities of CSOs to more effectively manage common purpose in their organisations.
A number of trainings also take place in focused workshops. Many of these currently focus on leadership development, such as the "Dealing with Shadow" workshop held in 2008 and the famous ETHOS (Ethical Holding of Organizational Space) workshop held in May 2009.
