{"id":3859,"date":"2014-10-02T23:03:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T23:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/?p=3859"},"modified":"2015-08-14T15:57:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T15:57:19","slug":"awdfs-third-ceo-forum-2014-nairobi-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/awdfs-third-ceo-forum-2014-nairobi-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"AWDF&#8217;s Third CEO Forum 2014 &#8211; Nairobi, Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span lang=\"en\">The 3rd Chief Executive Officer&#8217;s Forum<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">on<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Leadership, Governance and Communication for CEOs of Women&#8217;s Organisations<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">June 2 &#8211; 4, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Nairobi, Kenya<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3861\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3861\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Forum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3861\" src=\"http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Forum-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"The women of the Forum\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The women of the Forum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It is a biennial event convened by African Women&#8217;s Development Fund with CEOs and EDs from various women&#8217;s organisations supported by AWDF. \u00a0Within this forum there were four interweaving themes: leadership, executive governance, communications and self-care. The forum was organized as an intimate conversation in which participants would be encouraged to share openly about their experiences and their observations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">During reflections on leadership, participants shared their successes, challenges and lessons as well as listening to the journeys of leading women in politics, business, and the women\u2019s movement. Facilitator Hope Chigudu warned against overexertion by the leaders of the various organisations in an emotional and intense handout given to each participant entitled \u201cDear Activist.\u201d She demonstrated how detrimental overwork could be to personal and professional lives especially if there is not enough time taken for wellbeing. According to her, \u201cpower within \u2013\u00a0a sense of one\u2019s own dignity, profound sense of empowerment is always undermined by doubt, shame and guilt produced by the fragmentation and exhaustion of activists lives; think of how much power within is still driven by ambition and fear.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Health care practitioner, Dina Cesano spoke to the leaders about the relationship between leadership, wellbeing and health. She was available for consultation on healthy lifestyles throughout the three days of the forum. AWDF Board Chair Professor Sesae Mpuchane passed on the gems she has picked up on good governance through sitting on various boards. Both AWDF CEO Theo Sowa and Mentoring and Empowerment Programme echoed most of her sentiments for Young Women (MEMPROW) founder Dr. Hilda Tadria who shared their experiences of being leaders in their organisations as well as sitting on various boards. Participants were then put in two groups to\u00a0discuss governance as they have experienced or seen it in various organisations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">During her presentation Paula Fray of Frayintermedia emphasized the need for the participants\u00a0to recognize the importance of communication for their organisations. Without communication, she said, all the good work done by their organisations is invisible to the wider public and that is disadvantageous to them and their constituency. The participants were given a practical exercise of making the case for their work in front of the camera and thereafter gave each other feedback.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Finally, ten selected leaders were assigned to two coaches. In groups of two, they discussed what they felt they needed support with the most in the next ten months so as to be better\u00a0effective and radical feminist leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As the forum came to an end, it was clear that paying attention to the internal processes of the organisations is vital. \u201cThere is need for to be a big emphasis on quality and excellence in whatever is done. Inside, a feminist organisation must be alive and re-inventing its creativeness \u2013 learning and leading from the inside, not just responding to the outside\u201d emphasized Sarah Mukasa of AWDF.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Read more about all that happened at the forum here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/THE-3RD-CHIEF-EXECUTIVE-OFFICERS-FORUM-1.pdf\">THE 3RD CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER&#8217;S FORUM<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AWDF&#039;s Third CEO Forum 2014 - Nairobi, Kenya - The African Women&#039;s Development Fund (AWDF)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/awdfs-third-ceo-forum-2014-nairobi-kenya\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AWDF&#039;s Third CEO Forum 2014 - Nairobi, Kenya - The African Women&#039;s Development Fund (AWDF)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/awdfs-third-ceo-forum-2014-nairobi-kenya\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The African Women&#039;s Development Fund (AWDF)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-10-02T23:03:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-08-14T15:57:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Forum-300x198.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Communications\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Communications\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/awdf.org\\\/OldSite\\\/awdfs-third-ceo-forum-2014-nairobi-kenya\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/awdf.org\\\/OldSite\\\/awdfs-third-ceo-forum-2014-nairobi-kenya\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Communications\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/awdf.org\\\/OldSite\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0944a265659ce379489416a043736097\"},\"headline\":\"AWDF&#8217;s Third CEO Forum 2014 &#8211; 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