Our Strategy
OUR STRATEGY
Based on its mission, its vision and its strategic analysis, CELMAD has defined the following strategic areas of intervention and objectives :
General objective:
CELMAD promotes an appropriate mix of effective leadership and management, especially of women and youth, through capacity building for entities at regional, national, local and decentralized levels, including the public, private and parapublic sectors, the civil society and the media, the communities and citizens.
CELMAD promotes an appropriate mix of effective leadership and management, especially of women and youth, through capacity building for entities at regional, national, local and decentralized levels, including the public, private and parapublic sectors, the civil society and the media, the communities and citizens.
Focus area 1 : Research, studies and advocacy in combined leadership and management
- S.O. 1.1. Develop and implement research projects on African priorities;
- S.O. 1.2. Transform the results of research and endogenous knowledge into innovations and educational tools for capacity building and foresight;
- S.O. 1.3. Publish the findings through papers, workshops, conferences and the Dakar Forum on Leadership and Management, which presents the L&M report and index.
Focus area 2: Education, training and capacity building
- S.O. 2.1. Train and provide capacity building to citizens, communities and civil society, including through citizenship education;
- S.O. 2.2. Support public and private entities at local, national, regional and continental levels in their institutional strengthening;
- S.O. 2.3. Partnerships and joint training with other Centers, Academies or Institutes.
Focus area 3: Management and leadership coaching for systemic transformation
- S.O. 3.1. Carry out diagnosis, co-create solutions for public policies and develop innovation laboratories;
- S.O. 3.2. Provide expert advice, mentoring and coaching to strengthen resilience, strategic skills and the actors’ performances;
- S.O. 3.3. Promote future-oriented tools and approaches, disaggregated data and strategic negotiations to position Africa in global governance.
Focus area 4 : CELMAD Governance and Institutional Development
- S.O. 4.1. Make CELMAD a benchmark organization in terms of combined leadership and management on the continent, regarding research, innovation, knowledge and know-how valorization and support;
- S.O. 4.2. Implement innovative strategies in internal functional governance, networking, partnership and resource mobilization;
- S.O. 4.3. Enhance visibility through a strategy, a plan and communication products that are suitable and based on good practices.
OUR APPROACH
- Thinking and acting (" think-act");
- Endogenous and innovative solutions in leadership and management;
- Use of ICT, AI and situational and forward-looking analyses;
- Focus on youth and women;
- Alignment to national priorities, co – creation and integration of citizen ideas;
- Innovative framework: L&M, Sprinthonian approach and ILMC.
CELMAD adopts a combined systemic approach of transformational leadership and contextualized and innovative management, based on:
- Learning by doing (through experience) and thinking-oriented action (think-act);
- Managing systemic transformation, by fostering collective intelligence, synergies and complementarity;
- Promoting, capitalizing on and sharing universal and endogenous knowledge;
- Processes of systemic change, rooted in African values;
- The use of technologies (ICT, AI, big data) and foresight;
The approach includes strategic partnerships and engages creative actors in various fields to strengthen co-creation and co-action;
This broad, diverse and inclusive partnership will include Citizens and communities; Governments and regional institutions; Private sector; Civil society; Women’s, youth and vulnerable groups movements; Research and training structures; Think tanks; Media and digital platforms.
This broad, diverse and inclusive partnership will include Citizens and communities; Governments and regional institutions; Private sector; Civil society; Women’s, youth and vulnerable groups movements; Research and training structures; Think tanks; Media and digital platforms.
The CELMAD action is based on a dual approach:
- Horizontal : Foster intra- and inter-group exchanges to enrich discussions and ideas.
- Vertical : A top-down (top-down) dynamics to test public policies in the face of social realities, and a bottom-up (bottom-up) dynamics to integrate local experiences into societal decisions and trajectories.
This approach guarantees joint action and mutual accountability for sustainable impact.