Organisation Development and Strengthening to Form The Social-Economic Transformation and Environment Conservation Network (SETECON) of South-Central Region (Greater Masaka Region): A C-Suite Executive Master Class

Venue: MOD/Public Health Uganda/Public Health Consultants

Date: 16/06/2023

Objective:

1.     To rebrand as a Social-Economic Transformation and Environment Conservation Network (SETECON) of the South-Central Region (Greater Masaka Region).

2.     Train members of the Board of Trustees in Organisation Development and Strengthening Skills to enable them to translate the SDG into lived experiences; and to conduct effective monitoring, evaluation, and learning as well as generation of reports.

3.     Revitalize staff morale, and empower them to engage in visioning, implementation, self-propulsion, and accountability sessions to ensure better performance.

4.     Introduce the elements of “Public Health,” Emancipatory Public Health,” and “Adaptive Public Health framework,” and illustrate how these are both aspirations and action plans against risks and vulnerabilities affecting health-seeking practices. Illustrate how the principles such as preventing diseases; prolonging life; and promoting health link to better life outcomes. Introduce Iterative Heuristics such as HANDS-AEIOU litmus test of life outcomes. In full this is: Housing stability (H); Active and productive life (A); Nutrition security (N); Dignity affirmation; and Sustenance (S) where all effort is made to conserve what works. This knowledge is prompted by assessing (A) what may cause the negative effects of HANDS; ensuring that you reduce the risks and vulnerabilities due the negative effects of HANDS; affirmatively include (I) people who may be missed during the interventions; Optimise (O) use or uptake of services; and ensure universal health Coverage (UHC). This means that before implementing the services, one has to examine how behavioral, political, economic, social, physical, cultural, medical, legal, environmental, structural, gender, and civic enabling or responsive contexts are affecting or anticipate how they will affect transformation.

5.     Empowering members with narrative and self-improvement skills in writing as executives of the Corporate-suite level, i.e., C-suite executives by guiding them in generating briefs, short reports, long version reports, abstract writing, concept note, developing terms of reference (ToR) formulation, inception note and protocols.

6.     Showing the members, the elements of Organisation Development/Strengthening which can be broken down into two parts:

a.     Systems and structures e.g., Programme participants; AGM; Networks; Board of Trustees; Board of Directors; and Executive Team.

b.     Documents e.g., Constitution (Articles of Association and Memorandum of Association); Financial Policy manual; Human resource manual; Code of Conduct; Anti-discrimination Policy manual; Anti-sexual harassment Policy manual; Biodiversity and eco-conservation Policy manual’ Gender balance Policy manual; and others.

 

Participant Make-Up: The Steering Team and Board of Trustees

Expectations:

Form the Social-Economic Transformation and Environment Conservation Network (SETECON) of the South-Central Region (Greater Masaka Region).

Outline of activities:

a.     Become a Local Funding Agency (LFA)

b.     Ensure that we build, organize and strengthen a network of CBOs/CSOs from the Greater Masaka region with the aim of establishing and maintaining it through regular supervisory and process support to align with the SDGs.

c.     Engage in and mainstream climate-smart action; Pandemic Preparedness and Resilience building and other aspirations.

d.     Establish and maintain a Knowledge Hub.

e.     Act as the Fiscal Agency responsible for MEL and other oversight activities.

f.      Engage in resource mobilization and management.

 

Lessons Learnt:

1.     It was an opportunity to refresh on concepts within Public Health, Emancipatory Public Health, and Adaptive Public Health.

2.     Members realized the connection between regular reporting, social media platform updates, resource mobilization, proposal, and grant writing.

 

Way Forward:

1.     To establish a leadership panel of the MOD/PHU/PCH Umbrella.

2.     To generate all necessary documents and prepare them for induction

3.     To support all Steering Team members to be up-to-date on all C-suite Executive eligibility materials

4.     To share a report so that participants are able to revise the notes.

 

Concluding Remarks:

This training enabled members/participants to comprehend the mechanisms of forming a larger network. They were able to connect the elements of a larger network to life outcomes for the prospective program participants. This is risk mitigation training too.