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LEAD Brazil 2005 Highlights

LEAD Brazil, hosted by the Brazilian Association for Leadership Development or ABDL, has continually been an active member of the LEAD Network, participating in all traditional LEAD activities. LEAD Brazil remains committed to extending and intensifying this relationship in the long term and also in new initiatives, and has made specific efforts to improve their information on and relationships with Fellows.

Training Programmes:

In 2005, LEAD Brazil/ABDL launched the Redesenvolvimento program, in partnership with the AVINA Foundation, as part of the 11th cohort of LEAD Fellows Training program. This program seeks to train network facilitators and strengthen social networks for development, enhancing knowledge and practices of working through networks.

The first intake for the program is comprised of 24 participants, representing six networks for development and one inter-institutional group, comprised by AVINA, Ashoka, RITS and ABDL, NGOs that share the commitment to strengthening networks.

Lessons learned from the Redesenvolvimento program were presented at a workshop on “Networks, communication and development” at the World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Alegre, with participation of many LEAD Fellows.

Graduates qualify as ABDL Fellows in 2006, and as LEAD Fellows after taking part in a Global Training Session in Bhopal, India.

Networking:

In November of 2005, ABDL hosted a study visit for a group of six Chinese government officials, led by LEAD China Fellow Liu Can (Cohort 8), director of the China National Forestry Economics and Development Research Center. The group was accompanied in Brazil by LEAD Fellow Paula Arantes (Cohort 9), and met with representatives from government agencies and NGOs in Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro and Santarém and Belém in the State of Pará. Several Fellows assisted in setting up the abovementioned Chinese study visit agenda: Fábio Abdala (Cohort 9), Alberto Tavares Pereira (Cohort 7), Larissa Costa (Cohort 10), Márcio Halla (Cohort 7), Marli Mattos (Cohort 8) and Karla Matos (Cohort 6).

Fellows engagement:

Fellows continue to be engaged in ABDL’s projects in an advisory capacity: