YALI RLC: My Experience (Day 17)

The 10th day of October was the 17th of the training. It started out just like the previous day. Physical exercise and breakfast weren't left out.

At 8, we all assembled at the large lecture room for some briefings. And at 9, each track resumed their respective lecture sessions.

The entrepreneurs were taught by Dr. Obeng again, but with contributions from Dr. Pascal and the other wise man. We were taught that entrepreneurs need to recognize opportunities, constitute a formidable team and judiciously utilize resources. Not only did we learn what an idea is and what opportunity, too, is, but we learnt when an idea is an opportunity. We also, among many other things, learnt the key characteristics of an opportunity, and how opportunities can be visualized. There were video sessions and different exercises.

Mr. Ajibade gave a succinct summary of what he taught the public managers (or public policy makers) the previous day, and then completed his lecture session which was tagged 'Public Policy'. The public managers learnt how to be very strategic in planning, with emphasis on formulation and implementation programs. The shortfalls of planning processes and how to avoid making mistakes as 21st century leaders were also richly discussed.

The civic leaders started the day's activities with some presentations. The session which was given the capturing “Civil Sustainability” was led by a wise woman named Ann Iyanu. The approaches to the concept of sustainability were enumerated with a key focus on the WACSI - Commissioned Research on Civil Society Sustainability in Ghana. Politicization, partisan labelling, limited utilization of ICT potentials among other challenges were opined as the threats to organisational sustainability. At the end, the four key dimensions of civil society sustainability were discussed: identity sustainability, operational sustainability, financial sustainability and Interventions sustainability.

At some minutes past 4, we assembled again, and enjoyed the brilliant coachings of Dr. Pascal.

All other usual but important activities were observed.

Day 17 ends.

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