Women Leaders’ Network (WLN)

WLN is a growing network of women and young professionals in all sectors. It facilitates peer to peer learning through sharing of ideas, experiences and best case practices as well as mentorship and coaching. The WLN also facilitates quarterly Leadership enhancement workshops developed to directly address the capacity needs of members of the network. The agenda for each workshop is set by and for the members in the spirit of participation and self help.

Strategic Approaches
The network employs the following strategic approaches to achieve its objectives:

  • Individual Mentorship/Coaching
  • Capacity Building (Technical skills improvement)
  • Organization Development
  • Fostering organizational and sectoral collaborations based on key themes

Members of this Network are assisted to enhance individual and organizational efficiency and effectiveness. Popular cross cutting areas that this network addresses include the following:

  • Self management (balancing personal and workplace responsibilities)
  • Presentation skills
  • Team building
  • Time management
  • Strategic visioning (including development of organizational programs, systems and refining structures)
  • Development of organizational policy documents
  • People management and development
  • Financial management
  • Results oriented management
  • Priority/Goal setting
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Creativity
  • Innovation
  • Resource mobilization
  • Working with others through cross field/sector collaborations
  • Marketing
  • Policy Advocacy (grassroots communities influencing national laws and policies)
  • Documentation skills
  • Skills improvement in project design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment
  • Staff recruitment (Employer needs assessments, Advertisement, Background Checks, candidate assessments, staff orientation)
  • Organizational Board of Directors/Executive Committee orientation
  • Organizational membership development
  • Building effective development partnerships and collaborations
  • Information, communication and technology support
  • Design and production of information, educational and communication (IEC) materials