The workshop was an inspiring one, the spirit of change management among participants will definitely bring positive changes and innovations to the wide range of educational services, for those young adults who are in schools, in transition from school to university or to working life, who are university students, unemployed job seekers or in employment. The change projects will also help to develop the long-term sustainability of the Network of Adult Education Centres.
Organizational Development (OD) Workshop - Tools
ANAFAE conducted a three days Organizational Development (OD) workshop with the support of DVV International in Kabul from 10 – 12 April 2016.
The main focus of the workshop was to follow up the work on the agreed change projects in four strategic development areas: The development of educational services and products, in the field of capacity building and teacher qualification, in the analytical and research section to better understand the young learner's life settings and their learning needs and in the sustainable development part of the Network of Adult Educations Centres (ALCs) in 12 provinces.
The group of participants in this Workshop was composed of all important actors from different levels: Teachers, Heads of Education Departments, learners and staff from various programme office departments, from all Kabul ALCs and from the ALC in Charikar (Parwan Province).
The OD workshop as usual was very lively and participatory. The progress of the projects related to the 8 development goals was presented by the different project groups and reflected by all participants.
To continue the project planning process, the workshop this time focused on tool development. Common ground was laid to reach an understanding of what tools are, from simple tools, like checklists, to more complex ones, like Stake Holder Mapping, SWOT or Force Field Analysis and e.g. tools to analyze the learning processes in the education courses. The tool process development was introduced and discussed.
It was not an easy task to apply these tools and the tool development process in all change projects of the different groups. But finally, all groups managed to use and adapt them in their individual change projects.
The change groups will now continue their work till the beginning of May. The aim is now to design the change projects and the tools, to test them in the education practice of the Adult Learning Centres and to make them available for all Education Centres of the ANAFAE Network so that they can be used as replicable models.
A same Organization Development Workshop took also place in Mazar for the Northern Provinces. All project teams from Kabul and from the North now will cooperate during the next development process, will exchange their ideas and experiences and will streamline their projects for the final review in May.
