2020 Leadership Development Programme

What is the Leadership Development Programme (LDP)?

The LDP is a global service of the EV Partnership delivered to Pathfinding Country leaders. The LDP 2020 is interactive, fully online programme focusing on leadership, communication and storytelling skills for an exclusive cohort of public servants committed to ending violence against children. This year, we are addressing how to keep national action plans alive and relevant during COVID-19 and beyond. This programme was created by the End Violence Lab and Apolitical, a global learning platform for government. 

Who is the LDP for?

The Leadership Development Programme is a 12-week online course designed for public servants working on National Action Plans in Pathfinding Countries–this year we have delegates from Cambodia, Canada, Colombia, Philippines and Uganda.

Meet some of our delegates below.

Above: Rosette Nannyanzi from Uganda

 

Above: Conie Salcedo from the Philippines

 

Above: Lisa Witter from Apolitical introduces Sara Lefebvre from Canada

How does the LDP work?

Every week delegates receive information on a new topic on violence prevention programming. We build the programme based on expressed needs. Here are a few requests from our pre-course survey:

The process

Each week, country teams are given activities, resources and discussion questions. They are asked to respond on WhatsApp, which engages peers around the world.

Sample responses, including inter-country exchanges, include:

In addition to weekly WhatsApp assignments, there are also three webinars where with experts and counterparts from around the world. We also take polls to quickly understand delegate’s context and concerns.

At the end of the course, each country will create a piece of thought leadership, enriched by a cohort of like-minded public leaders who are thinking about ending VAC drawing attention to each country’s National Action Plan in a COVID-19 context.

Stay tuned for our real-time updates where will share with you current thinking from our delegates on topics such as:

• INSPIRE strategy priority setting
• How to be adaptive and agile in COVID-19
• How to use data in policymaking
• And more!