 Sponsor: W.K.
Kellogg Foundation (WKKF)
Countries: Argentina, Brazil, Dominican
Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru
Program focus: Social leadership
Timeframe: 2000–2001
Description: In 1998, WKKF approached LASPAU
and the Tec de Monterrey with a request to develop a leadership strengthening
program for leaders of nongovernmental organizations that were recipients
of WKKF funding. The central idea was to build a cadre of socially minded
leaders who, through their projects, would work for the common good and have
an increasingly significant social impact on their respective countries. An
important theme was creating willingness in existing leaders to mentor and
coach others. The program, launched in July 2000, included a three-week session
at ITESM in Monterrey, Mexico, one week at Harvard University in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, and nine months of online learning for the twenty participants.
More Information
From the Fall 2000/Winter 2001 issue of the
LASPAU
Informativo newsletter:
The goals of the Leadership Strengthening Program were to build
awareness of modern concepts of leadership; strengthen the skills,
attitudes, and values needed to support a new leadership culture;
create new competencies in coaching and mentoring; and build a
network among the participants to share ideas and experiences.
One well-received aspect of the Cambridge sessions was a day
dedicated to roundtable discussions between the participants
and the executive directors of three prominent non-governmental
organizations based in the United States: Stephen F. Moseley
of the Academy for Educational Development, Catherine Crone-Coburn
of Management Sciences for Health, and Samuel Worthington of
PLAN International.
Faculty for the Cambridge component included four individuals
from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government: David
Brown, visiting professor in public administration; Patricia Craig,
a research associate in the Overseas Program Office; Marie Danzinger,
an auxiliary professor and director of the Program in Communications;
and Jesús Mena, director of communications and public
affairs. Also on the Cambridge faculty was Manuel Manga, a consultant
in organization design and leadership training.
The nongovernmental organizations whose leaders participated
in the program were:
- Fundación Solidaridad, Argentina
- Departamento de Estudos Sócio-Econômicos Rurais
(DESER), Brazil
- Instituto de Prevenção a Desnutrição
e à Excepcionalidade (IPREDE), Brazil
- Acción Evangélica de Desarrollo, Dominican
Republic
- Educadores Unidos del Cibao, Dominican Republic
- Proyecto Agricultura Sostenible en Areas Regables (PASAR),
Dominican Republic
- Universidad Central del Ecuador, Ecuador
- Instituto Centroamericano de Administración de Empresas
(INCAE), El Salvador
- Agroindustrias del Mayo, Mexico
- Altepetl Nahuas de la Montaña de Guerrero, Mexico
- Alternativas de Capacitación y Desarrollo Comunitario
(ALCADECO), Mexico
- Centro de Investigaciones Regionales “H. Noguchy,” Universidad
Autónoma de Yucatán, Mexico
- Fundación de Apoyo Infantil, Mexico
- Raíces Asesorías Alternativas, Mexico
- Secretaría Desarrollo Rural del Gobierno, Estado
de Guerrero, Mexico
- Unidad de Capacitación para el Desarrollo Rural,
Mexico
- Unidad Regional Universitaria de Zonas Aridas, Universidad
Autónoma de Chapingo, Mexico
- Unión de Esfuerzos para el Campo (UDEC), Mexico
- Instituto Nicaragüense de Tecnología Agropecuaria
(INTA), Nicaragua
- Centro de la Promoción de la Mujer (CEPROM), Peru
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