Corporate Training

Corporate Training

1) Organizational Development Trainings

We are a multidisciplinary company with a wide range of expertise that allows us to deliver training in different thematic areas. We make our trainings as participatory and practical as possible, leading to a high adoption rate. We have our own home-grown training materials that we have developed for ourselves and our clients. To be effective and efficient, all our training programs must be informed by needs assessment. We undertake an in-depth assessment of an organization or group, and assess the capacities, needs and gaps among its
staff or members in all dimensions. Based on this we develop an appropriate training plan to
strengthen the identified capacities and address all the capacity gaps identified. The following
are the key areas of our training programs:

  • Leadership and governance
  • Human Resources Management Practices
  • Financial Management
  • Performance Management

2) Farmer Training Courses

We have a team of technical experts that provide targeted training to our clients. Our training
areas in livestock production include:
a) Dairy Production (Dairy cow and Dairy Goats):
b) Poultry production:
c) Beef Production
d) Fodder production, Harvesting and conservation:
e) Natural Resource Management:
f) Group Dynamics

3) Entrepreneurship courses for Producer Organization

SPARD Africa provides information, advice and support to existing and potential entrepreneurs before they embark on their business ventures in order to ensure that their business arebprofitable and sustainable. We also provide specialized training to help them manage and grow their businesses using the right management and entrepreneurship principles.
Our training program includes the following modules:

  • Developing a vision for your business
  • Setting business systems and structures to allow growth and scale;
  • Statutory compliance: Understanding taxation, licenses, legal procedures etc.
  • Financial management: financial management system; important controls, risk management
  • Business analysis: determine your cost drivers, your revenue drivers? Your profits; how to interpret your financial data
  • Formalizing Businesses: Different legal structures, how to make partnerships, chamas, family businesses sustainable
  • Marketing: market segmentation, product differentiation, marketing plan; marketing methods; use of digital media in marketing
  • Building a brand: How you can build, maintain and leverage a strong brand in the market place
    Investments: choosing the appropriate investment vehicles for your hard earned cash.
  • Capital acquisition: Different approaches for raising business capital and how to determine which is good for your business

4) Group Dynamics for Community and Farmer Groups

Farmer or community groups are an integral part of community development; they form the entry point for all interventions through which a strong social capital is built for community and enterprise development initiatives. Institutional capacity building of the groups through training on group dynamics is therefore very important for such a foundation to be built. Leaders of agribusiness institutions, together with their facilitators should understand group dynamic forces so as to understand the behavior of the individuals in the group and their influences on the organization.
SPARD Africa has a team of experienced group dynamics and governance experts. We have developed comprehensive training modules which we use to deliver the following training:

  • Groups as vehicles for Development Process
  • Process of Group formation
  • Stages of group development
  • Constitutions and bylaws
  • Participatory Planning
  • Group leadership
  • Meetings
  • Communication in Groups
  • Cooperation and Control
  • Problem solving and conflict resolution
  • Decision making
  • Financial management
  • Record keeping

Corporate Training

1) Project Management Training

About the Course

The need to deliver high quality deliverables at every stage of the project without compromising cost and deadline is ever increasing in the development arena. Pressures to meet targets on time and the need to be highly accountable to funders, clients, stakeholders and employers are demanding project managers with practical and professional skills in project management. For both small and large projects, a course Practical and Professional Project Management will provide all the necessary guidelines for seasoned and blossoming professionals to effectively master the discipline of project management. SPARD Africa’s Practical Project Management Course has been tailor made to respond to the growing demand for result oriented project
managers from Non Profits, Private and public sector organizations and agencies. In addition, we provide training and coaching for project staffs who are aspiring to rise up the ladder to become project and program managers.
If you aim to grow or improve your project management skills to become an achiever in this field, then this course if just meant for you. We offer the following 6 modules in our Practical and Result oriented training:

  • Principles of project management
  • Designing Development Projects Using Log frame Matrix
  • Results Based Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Project Management Skills
  • Project Management Structures
  • Donor Contract Management
  • Financial Management for donor Projects
  • Project Closure, Sustainability and Exit Planning
  • Planning and executing project evaluations and Impact Assessment
  • Community Engagement and Participatory Approaches Used in Project Delivery
  • Market Led Development Paradigm
  • Planning and delivering Training programs

2) Entrepreneurship courses for Individual SMEs

SPARD Africa provides information, advice and support to existing and potential entrepreneurs before they embark on their business ventures in order to ensure that their business are profitable and sustainable. We also provide specialized training to help them manage and grow their businesses using the right management and entrepreneurship principles.
Our training program includes the following modules:

  • Developing a vision for your business: why does your business exist? What is value proposition; what problems is your business solving in the market? Choosing the right business model for your business;
  • Setting business systems and structures to allow growth and scale; is your business system or individual driven? Is your business scalable? Is your business replicable?
  • Statutory compliance: Understanding taxation, licenses, legal procedures etc.
  • Financial management: financial management system; important controls, risk management
  • Business analysis: determine your cost drivers, your revenue drivers? Your profits; how to interpret your financial data
  • Formalizing Businesses: Different legal structures, how to make partnerships, chamas, family businesses sustainable
  • Marketing: market segmentation, product differentiation, marketing plan; marketing methods; use of digital media in marketing
  • Building a brand: How you can build, maintain and leverage a strong brand in the market place
  • Investments: choosing the appropriate investment vehicles for your hard-earned cash.
  • Capital acquisition: Different approaches for raising business capital and how to determine which is good for your business

3) Results Based Monitoring and Evaluation Training

Results Based Monitoring and Evaluation system is geared to helping project team focus on results and
not activities by always helping to answer the question: ‘So what, after the activities were implemented?’ Consequently the system provides greater transparency and accountability on the use of project resources (time, human and financial), providing feedback on the extent to which the project results are being achieved throughout the project lifecycle. The training will help the teams to effectively track results and report impact.

4) Theory of Change

We provide training to project teams on developing and using Theory of change in project cycle management. Our course content covers:

  • Understanding what is Theory of Change (ToC).
  • How to conduct Situational /Contextual Analysis for developing ToC– Proportional Piling, Pairwise ranking, Venn diagrams etc.
  • Causal and Problem Tree analysis
  • From Problems to Solutions ( Developing ToC)
  • Determining Change Pathway/Domains of Change
  • How to Identify Assumptions and Articulate Rationales
  • Converting ToC to Result Framework (FR)
  • From RF to Results Based ( impact) Monitoring
  • Data Collection Methods
  • Data analysis

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