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LEAD Africa Fellowship

LEAD Arica, LEAD International and the Shell Foundation have come

together to create what they hope will be the premier leadership

development programme in Arica.

Building on LEAD Aricas 15 years o experience, they will train over 500

mid-career leaders each year rom dierent sectors, cultures and countries

across the continent in both leadership skills and sustainable development.

These leaders will then become part o a pan-Arican leaders network that

will continue to work together or a prosperous, socially equitable and

environmentally sustainable Arican uture.


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Key Elements of the Initiative

Green shoots o hope or a better uture are emerging across Arica,

and leadership is critically important to turn these green shoots

into solid, sustainable development. Political leadership is o course

a necessity, but equally good governance in all sectors and at all levels

o society is crucial to Aricas uture. The programme will seek

to equip a new generation o Arican leaders - business leaders,

community leaders, media leaders, government leaders, civil society

leaders, academic leaders - with the skills and networks necessary

or eective change.

Poverty and environmental degradation still blight the lives o millions

o Aricans and emerging threats such as climate change and rapid

urbanisation present major challenges. The programme will provide

leaders with a good understanding o sustainable development -

economic growth, social equity and environmental protection - and

the skills and knowledge to meet the challenges o a changing world.

The programme will encourage graduates to continue to collaborate

and work together ater their training is over, through LEAD

Associations and individually, or positive change to a sustainable

Arican uture. The programme will build on LEADs experience in this

area and seek to provide opportunities or active alumni engagement,

in Arica and worldwide.

The programme will be piloted in 2010 in Kenya and Senegal with

a view to roll-out in 2011 in multiple locations across Arica.

Using an initial investment o up to $12 million rom the Shell

Foundation, the ounding partners will seek to bring in other partners

and create an endowment und o $50 million. This will make the

programme sel-sustaining and able to spend $2 million per year

in perpetuity.

Leadership

Sustainable

Development

Active Fellows

Network

Pilot Phase

Partnership


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Green shoots of hopefor a better future...


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...positive changeto a sustainableAfrican future.


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Te Programme

LEAD Arica will target mid-career Arican proessionals o both genders, aged between

25 and 40, rom business, government, NGOs, academia and the media.

Participants will be accepted ollowing a competitive application process. Selected candidates

need to be at the right point in their career path to respond to, and deliver, change. Each participant

will have a personal development plan to expand their leadership abilities.

Initial training consists o two intensive modules each lasting one week, as well as a web-based

platorm that delivers learning and provides opportunities or interaction with Arican leaders.

A selected number o participants will also be invited to attend an annual pan-Arican one week

leadership conerence and a global session arranged by LEAD International.

The programme will be Arican-led and have a distinct Arican identity, and strict quality monitoring

will occur. Scholarships will be available to ensure the quality o applicants - rather than the abilityto pay - remains the principal actor in the selection process.

An awards scheme will be developed and launched during the 2010 pilot. The awards will reect

a range o individual and team achievements and may be supported by corporate partners.

It will also reward action by alumni and increase the interactivity o the network.


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LEAD Fellows

Graduates o the fagship leadership programme are known as LEAD Fellows. To date,

more than 400 leaders have completed the programme in Arica and they have continued

to work together and collaborate once their training is over.

This talent bank provides a shared resource or Arican leaders and organisations to use

in creating sustainable solutions to the development challenges acing the Continent.

Arican graduates join a global alumni network o more than 2,000 LEAD Fellows - with many

associations unctioning actively at a regional, national or thematic level - to encourage urther

learning, inormation and collaboration. In a world o increasing global interdependence, this

network provides invaluable linkages to Aricans.

Measuring SuccessOn the oundations o LEAD Aricas experience, a new curriculum is being developed.

Pilot programmes have been designed, the governance model put in place and the

selection process or pilot participants is ready to begin.

The pilot will be constantly monitored to ensure that all aspects o the programme - including

management, curriculum content and methodology - are ocused and meet key objectives.

Participants completing the course will be asked to evaluate the eectiveness o the trainingand core aculty. Well-defned key perormance indicators will allow ongoing monitoring.

By 2015, we want LEAD Arica to be recognised as the Continents pre-eminent leadership

development programme. It should be sel-sustaining, stable, have a clear Arican identity

and actively engage and learn rom all partners.


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...creating sustainable solutionsto the development challenges

facing the Continent.


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Founding Partners

LEAD is an international non-proft organisation with a ast

growing network o more than 2,000 Leaders in over 90

countries. There are currently more than 400 Fellows active

across Arica. Its mission is to inspire leadership or a sustainable

world and it has been delivering its core leadership programmein Arica since 1992.

LEAD ofces across the world deliver training programmes

that challenge traditional notions o leadership with progressive

participatory techniques. Using LEADs experiential approach,

participants learn through multi-stakeholder dialogue, systems

thinking, and inclusive cross-cultural processes.

Visit www.LEAD.org or more inormation.

The Shell Foundations mission is to develop, scale-up and promote

enterprise-based solutions to the challenges arising rom the impact

o energy and globalisation on poverty and the environment.

It was established by Royal Dutch Shell in 2000 as an independent,

charity operating with a global mandate.Visit www.shelloundation.org or more inormation.


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...a prosperous, sociallyequitable and environmentally

sustainable African future.


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www.LEAD.org

www.shellfoundation.org

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