The richness of participants’ experiences and knowledge, as well as the skills they bring, add to the great potential for learning about leadership. Our understanding of learning focuses on a learner-centred approach to learning-teaching dynamics. Learning is done by the learner, not to or for the learner.

As humans are meaning-making beings, in this program we will collaboratively seek to make meaning of our experiences in leadership and community development at the local/community, regional, and global levels.

The teaching learning dynamic in this course is centred around problem-posing education informed by reflective practice. Practitioners are invited to learn during and from experience, engaging in reflection in and on their own community development and leadership practice. Reflective practice involves asking questions to deepen understanding as well as being open to growth in leadership practice. Drawing from existing perspectives and experiences to engage in reflective practice, critical inquiry, and dialogue, the group will share and learn from each other’s experiences, strengths, assets, and challenges to identify emerging issues and possibilities to support women’s advancement locally and globally with an emphasis on their economic agency.

Coady Institute ensures that participants working with marginalized communities around the world have access to its courses. This is made possible through the provision of bursaries that are funded by many individual and institutional donors.

Accepted participants to this course will receive a full bursary to cover tuition, accommodation, breakfast, and lunch in Addis Ababa. All travel related expenses including airfare and visa fees, as well as travel cancellation and emergency medical insurance, are the responsibility of the participant. Participants are also responsible for their own dinner (excluding the provided graduation celebration dinner on the last night) and any personal expenses and incidental costs.