Announces New NGO Management Program in Kenya

The Center for Policy, Planning, and Performance has just signed a memorandum of agreement with Western University in Kakamega, Kenya to provide a new 4-year undergraduate program in NGO management. In conjunction with this program, the University will create a new NGO Department. The Center will develop the curriculum, provide the instructors, and — in partnership with the University — promote and develop the new Center for NGO Management on the University campus.

This is the first NGO college program in East Africa. Instructors from the United States will provide the training for undergraduate students in a partnership with practitioners and existing Kenya NGOs who will help to ensure translation, cultural appropriateness, and action learning that builds the capacity of the NGO sector countrywide. Instructors interested in co-teaching under the Center's contract should contact us either at our main office in St Paul or in Nairobi and request more information. Classes are scheduled to start with the January term of 2007.