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Women and Young Leader's Network (WYLN)
ICON hosts a Women and Young Leaders Network (WYLN) that aims to nurture generations of visionary leaders and citizens through the provision of tailored on-going mentorship and technical support to individual women leaders, young leaders and their organisations. Eligible members of this network are women leaders in any field, young people (children and young adults) and male leaders who are working with women and young people.
Objectives
The Women and Young Leaders Network (WYLN) has the following objectives:
1) Provide an environment that fosters individual and organizational innovation and creativity.
2) Improve individual, organizational and sector performance.
3) Build confidence and facilitate the development of appropriate skills and attitudes that advance the effectiveness of individuals to develop their environments.
4) Enhance the technical and management capabilities of female managers and young people working to address the root causes of ignorance, poverty, disease and under development.
Strategic Approaches
The network employs the following strategic approaches to achieve its objectives:
- Individual Mentorship/Coaching
- Capacity Building (Technical skills improvement)
- Organization Development
- Fostering organizational and sectoral collaborations based on key themes
Members of this Network are assisted to enhance individual and organisational efficiency and effectiveness. Popular cross cutting areas that this network addresses include the following:
- Self management (balancing personal and workplace responsibilities)
- Presentation skills
- Team building
- Time management
- Strategic visioning (including development of organizational programs,
systems and refining structures)
- Development of organizational policy documents
- People management and development
- Financial management
- Results oriented management
- Priority/Goal setting
- Entrepreneurship
- Creativity
- Innovation
- Resource mobilisation
- Working with others through cross field/sector collaborations
- Marketing
- Policy Advocacy (grassroots communities influencing national laws
and policies)
- Documentation skills
- Skills improvement in project design, implementation, monitoring,
evaluation and impact assessment
- Staff recruitment (Employer needs assessments, Advertisement, Background
Checks, candidate assessments, staff orientation)
- Organizational Board of Directors/Executive Committee orientation
- Organizational membership development
- Building effective development partnerships and collaborations
- Information, communication and technology support
- Design and production of information, educational and communication
(IEC) materials
Contact
Annet Tumwijukye
Coordinator Women and Young Leaders Network
Telephone: +256 (0) 312 261190, +256 (0) 414 348780, +256 (0) 772 483273
Email:info@iconug.net / annet@iconug.net
Skype Id: precious6000
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