AMECEA Secretariat will be hosting AMECEA/USCCB Joint Meeting that will review the capacity building project on 6th July, 2015.
According to the program, the USCCB staff; that is, Mr. Patrick Markey and Mr. Fritz Zuger from the Department of National Collections, will arrive in Kenya from Dar-es-Salaam on Sunday 5th July 2015. The Joint Meeting is scheduled on Monday 6th July and will involve all the stake holders of the Capacity Building Project, which include, AMECEA Secretariat, CUEA and USCCB Department of National Collections.
Speaking to AMECEA Online News, the Coordinator of the Capacity Building Project, Ms. Christine Mbugi, said that the review of the first phase of the Capacity Building Project, which is almost done, will be among the main agenda of the meeting and to plan the way forward for the next phase of the project.
“AMECEA Bishops identified priority areas that required capacity building, and in collaboration with USCCB department of National Collections, these areas have been categorized into five phases of which phase one is almost done and so far over 300 participants have benefited from the project,” Mbugi said.
The five identified areas include Leadership and Management, Youth Ministry and Chaplaincy, Information Technology and Communications, Planning and Methods of Fundraising and finally Project Management and Skills for Designing Strategic Pastoral Planning.
So far Leadership and Management training for senior management staff of the dioceses have been conducted in the six out of eight AMECEA Conferences. These include Ethiopia, Tanzania, Malawi, Sudan and South Sudan, Kenyan and Uganda. A Similar training is scheduled for the Zambia in September this year and the final one will be for Eritrea.
“We intend to wrap up the first phase of Capacity Building this year and embark on the second phase next year. The evaluation and review of the project which is scheduled to take place during the meeting will be a pointer to our next move,” she said adding that “So far, the experience has been positive, encouraging and we have received tremendous response from the Conferences we’ve covered so far. They have demonstrated commitment to the project by participating fully and have shown a great desire to benefit more.”
The team from USCCB is also scheduled on 7th July to pay a courtesy visit to the Apostolic Nuncio to Kenya and South Sudan and the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops in Nairobi.
Finally, on 8thJuly, AMECEA Social Communications Department will meet with the team from USCCB together with Ms. Petra Stammen of CAMECO (Germany) to deliberate on AMECEA initiative towards ICT compliance.
The USCCB delegates will depart from Kenya on the evening of 8th July back to the USA.
By Pamela Adinda, AMECEA Online News