Partner Organization: Strathmore Business School

Building women’s skills and capacity

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Join us in celebrating International Women’s Day 2018!

Through our #PressforProgress campaign, we are proud to share information about our partnerships that are supporting women’s economic empowerment in a variety of ways.

 

 

The Strathmore Business School (SBS) is a renowned institution in East Africa that aims at developing transformative business leaders to tackle the various social and economic challenges facing Africa. With support from FSD Africa, SBS has developed and expanded its Leadership Academy in East Africa including creating a ‘Women in Leadership’ programme. The programme is targeted at women in management and equips women with skills to perform effectively and efficiently to achieve excellence in the various spheres of their lives.

Additionally, The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) through FSD Africa’s support, is providing skills development and training in order to strengthen professional standards among Capital Markets Professionals – women included. CISI is a professional body that offers a wide range of qualifications in the financial sector including Operations, Wealth Management, Compliance/Risk, Capital Markets/Corporate Finance, Financial Planning and Islamic F

Over 1,000 senior and mid-level executives to benefit from FSD Africa’s USD1.14 million grant to strathmore business school

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FSD Africa is pleased to announce that it has signed a USD 1.14 million grant agreement with Strathmore Business School – SBS to develop and deliver training to over 1,000 senior and mid-level executives in the financial sector in Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda. Funded by the UK’s Department for International Development, FSD Africa supports financial sector development to help reduce poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.

This grant builds on FSDA’s strategy of supporting the emergence of strong centres of excellence that provide best practice training to financial sector professionals.

Strathmore Business School has for the past 10 years demonstrated its ability to deliver transformative executive development programmes in Kenya which has positively impacted the business community. We are delighted to partner with SBS to spread this success into the region.

Julias Alego, FSD Africa’s Director of Professional Education

Since 2013 SBS has trained over 200 senior and middle level managers in Uganda under the Uganda Leadership Development Academy – ULDA. This grant will support the expansion of the programme into Tanzania and Rwanda until the end of 2018. It will essentially be used to develop faculty, course material, case studies and limited scholarships to pioneering financial institutions for the programmes.

Over the next three years, it is expected that the target financial institutions to which these course participants belong will develop innovative products and deliver effective service to reach out to up to 5 million of existing and new customers in underserved market segments.

This partnership with FSDA will further enable Strathmore Business School to expand its leadership development programmes in the region and thus reach out to more executives and change livelihoods. We are excited with this partnership and look forward to working closely with FSDA to change lives.

Dr. George Njenga, Strathmore Business School Dean