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UN-HABITAT’s Training and Capacity Building Branch (TCBB) assists local authorities and civil society organizations to build core skills in competencies in diverse areas including leadership, financial management, local economic development, participatory planning and conflict management.
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Making Learning Matter: Training Impact Evaluation e-forum
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February 2006 Issue
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FEATURE STORIES
UN-HABITAT and MASHAV hold first joint urban training seminar
Nanyuki, Kenya 31 May 2006 — Some 26 participants last week successfully took part in a Training of Trainers workshop as part of a joint initiative between UN-HABITAT and the Centre for International Cooperation of Israel (MASHAV).
Local Elected Leadership Training- Regional Training Workshop For Eastern And Southern Africa
TCBB has successfully completed the East and Southern Africa launch of the Elected Leadership Series through a seven-day Training-of-Trainers Workshop conducted in Pretoria, South Africa on 7-13 May 2006.  The Workshop was organized jointly by UN-HABITAT and several critical South African partners: Institute for Democratic Alternative in South Africa (IDASA), South Africa Local Government Association (SALGA), Department for Provincial and Local Government (DPLG) and the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA).
Strengthening Key Competencies On Leadeship For Improved Local Governance In The South Pacific Region
A Training of Trainers Workshop and Pilot Seminar based on UN-HABITAT's Elected Leadership series was implemented from 27 March - 8 April 2006 in Suva, Fiji. Some 30 trainers representing 8 Islands states (Papua New Guinea, Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Tonga, and Fiji) benefited from the two-week training programme.
Asia-Pacific Launch of the Training of Trainers Workshop on the Elected Leadership Series
New Delhi, 27 January-2 February 2006
Twenty-two senior representatives from the Asia Pacific region belonging to national local government training institutes just concluded a week long training-of-trainers programme based-on one of UN-HABITAT’s most successful publications “The Local Elected Leadership Series”.
UPCOMING EVENTS & CONVENTIONS
Promoting Local Economic Development through Strategic Planning; Training of Trainers workshop for Eastern Africa;
21 –25 May 2005; Nyeri, Kenya

UN–HABITAT through its Training and Capacity Building Branch will hold a training of trainers workshop on promoting local economic development (LED) through strategic planning. The four day workshop for Eastern Africa is proposed to expose lead national training institutions, associations of local authorities, local government ministries and municipalities to locally owned and driven development approaches and tools and also explore opportunities for their enhanced role in supporting LED initiatives in their respective countries and at a regional level.
OUR PUBLICATIONS/ TOOLS
Revised Local Elected Leadership Series
Local Economic Development Series
Building Organisational Capacity through Managing and Developing Human Resources
Building Organisational Capacity through Managing and Developing Financial Resources
Building Organisational Outreach Capacity within NGOs and CBOs
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