AMECEA plans to embark on the second cycle of the Capacity Building Program in July this year by starting another program for training after finishing the first cycle which had been running for the last three years.
Addressing participants of Capacity Building Workshop held in Kampala, Uganda on Tuesday 5thMay 2015, the AMECEA Secretary General Rev. Fr. Ferdinand Lugonzo said, “AMECEA has rolled out the trainings in the last three years and we have covered almost all the conferences except Zambia in the first cycle. We hope that starting from the next half of this year, we shall be addressing the next theme of the training which will be chosen in consultation with all the parties concerned.”
Fr. Lugonzo explained that the capacity building program was rolled out after the endorsement of Bishops during the 17th AMECEA Plenary Assembly and charged AMECEA Secretariat with the responsibility of coordination. “So far more than seventy Bishops from AMECEA Conferences have benefited from the project,” he said.
“Immediately after the endorsement, we singled out five key areas the training should address. The first area is Leadership and Management targeting the closest collaborators of Bishops in administration,” he said.
He told workshop participants who consisted of top management staff from all Dioceses in Uganda, among them Vicars general and Diocesan Chancellors.
Fr. Lugonzo said that the second area for the training is ‘Youth Ministry and Chaplaincy Apostolate.’ He said, “in our work we need to address more about the youth and the people who are serving them, otherwise we might lose the future of the Church.”
According to Fr Lugonzo, the third area for the training will be on ‘Communication’as a necessary component of evangelization. “We want our agents of evangelization to understand what is at stake when it comes to information technology (IT) and the use of communication for evangelization, in order not to be left out in a world that has been swept by the new media technology,” he said.
He said that the fourth area to be addressed will be on ‘Planning and Project Management’, especially on developing skills for strategic pastoral plan. “If you don’t plan well then you are planning to fail,” he said.
The last area to be focused on by AMECEA Capacity Building is about ‘Methods of fundraising and Financial Administration. “This particular theme will ensure that we remain a credible Church in all matters of finance,” he said.
SOURCE: Pamela Adinda, AMECEA Social Communications