The Collective Leadership Institute launches StakeholderDialogues.net

StakeholderDialogues.net LogoStakeholderDialogues.net is a first – the interactive learning space for practitioners acting in multi-stakeholder environments goes online.

Online today, StakeholderDialogues.net offers practitioners from the private sector, the public sector, and civil society organizations an interactive learning space about stakeholder dialogues. It conveys the methodology that empowers to make stakeholder collaboration work and thus better face global challenges, secure competitiveness while operating in a sustainable way. Unlike conventional approaches, StakeholderDialogues.net equips practitioners with an integrated system that makes a difference and has a real impact on their multi-stakeholder environment.

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Oran, Algeria – Silva Mediterranea – Dialogues entre Parties Prenantes, November 2012

Susanne Bauer and Silvine Gerlach spent five days in Oran, Algeria working with a diverse group of national experts on forestry, environment, technical and vocational training and tourism invited by the GIZ regional project “Silva Mediterranea” in six countries. Oran, the 2nd largest city of Algeria (which today is the largest country in Africa), is rich in heritage of Moorish traders situated along the cost of the Mediterranean Sea. Close to smaller cities like Tlemcen, Oran is also famous for its flourishing vineyards and olive plantations, and is home to famous Algerian-French Rai singers like Rashid Taha or the local star Naima D’Ziria with her beautiful voice. Oran hosts one of the major ports and is noted as an industrial, cultural and educational center. Continue reading

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Re-energizing collaboration – The Comoros Islands

As I’m writing this, we’ve just landed for a short stopover in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, with the final destination of Dakar, Senegal, where I will be holding our “Working with Stakeholder Dialogues” Course in French with our Senegalese Senior Associate Moussa Gueye! The cool dry air in the airplane has now been fully replaced with the warm, arid Burkinabe air – only a couple of minutes to go then we’ll be continuing our journey on to Dakar.

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Sustainability leadership: how can we combine flatland and wonderland?

If we want to co-create a more sustainable future, we need both the harsh reality of flatland and the spirituality of wonderland.

Working with people and organisations, I often meet people who are overworked, rushed, with dwindling personal relationships, haunted by overexposure to new technology and usually exhausted. Continue reading

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Supporting the implementation of the National Health Plan in Togo

At the beginning of May, 2012, a national road map on political dialogue in the health sector was signed by local and international partners including the EU and the WHO. Susanne Bauer and Andrew Aitken recently travelled to Togo to support the implementation of the national health plan in the local districts during a tailor made training on Stakeholder Dialogues with district and national health representatives. Continue reading

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Hammamet, Tunisie – Silva Mediterranea – Dialogues entre Parties Prenantes, March 2012

Susanne Bauer and Silvine Gerlach spent a week in Hammamet, Tunisia working with the GIZ and members of the Tunisian National Forestry Directorate  Continue reading

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Leadership for sustainability: the art of engaging

What does water resource management in the Congo basin have in common with ensuring living wages in Bangladesh?

Cross-sector initiatives and complex co-operation projects have become key elements for global and local change toward more sustainable development. Effective water resource management requires not only co-ordination between different public sector entities, but also productive co-operation between public sector, private sector and civil society actors, and collaboration across borders. Continue reading

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Beirut, Lebanon – Silva Mediterranea in Stakeholder Dialogues, March 2012

From 26 – 29 March, 2012, the CLI ran a tailor-made course on Stakeholder Dialogues in Beirut, Lebanon. After a relaxed arrival, things started to get complicated…Susanne Bauer describes how she moved from crisis to opportunity during her first mission abroad with the CLI.

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Report of the High-level Panel on Global Sustainability: “Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing”

The Collective Leadership Institute shares its ideas on ‘Resilient People Resilient Planet!’ UN High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability, Observations, February 27, 2012, by Susanne Bauer who is  joining the CLI team as of March, 2012 Continue reading

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Expect it to be different

This blog post comes to you directly from Kinshasa. Its about how Stakeholder Dialogues in the water sector in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are becoming an important topic and I give some of my personal impressions of the people, the places and the local music. Continue reading

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