Members' Legislative Proposals: A Guide for the National Council of Provinces and Provincial Legislatures

This publication would assist members of the NCOP and the Provincial Legislatures to be proactive in generating legislative proposals, based on the needs and requirements from their constituencies.

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The Guide will assist communities to understand the importance and procedures of casting one's vote.

Leadership and Team-Building

This programme is designed to give the participants a chance to talk, think and learn more about leadership and team building. There are a number of skills to be acquired from this training including:

• Define leadership and recognize the characteristics of a leader.
• Recognize the types of behavior and the qualities that define a good or a bad leader and apply these to yourself.
• Understand more about the use of power in leadership.
• Critically discuss different types of leadership styles in different cultures and situations.
• Analyse the central values that all good leaders should have and apply these to yourself.
• Analyse the mistakes that leaders make and how to avoid them.
• Understand the role of teams and team leaders.
• Apply some skills for building and leading a team.

 

Choosing our Future - A Guide for Young Leaders

This manual is designed to give youth the chance to talk, think and learn more about their future and their role in society. There are a number of skills to be gained through this program:

• Explore issues of group and personal identity that give young leaders the confidence to face the future.
• Understand diversity- coping with being different, how you approach the similarities and differences amongst your peers.
• Recognize and stand up against discrimination.
• Understand and exercise your constitutional rights and responsibilities.
• Develop skills for shaping the future with other young people.

 

The manual is designed for high school learners, members of youth groups, sports clubs faith based or community based organizations. This program is designed for young people who want to share ideas and develop their skills to play an active role in shaping their future and the future of their society.

The guide to Managing Conflict at Community Level is a training manual designed to help both elected and non-elected leaders manage and resolve disputes in their own neighbourhood.The purpose of this is to help reduce the level of conflict in communities so that peoples skills and energy can be focused more effectively on improving quality of life. 

 

The manual explores the causes and effects of conflict, and engages particpants in developing creative and construuctive approaches to managing conflict in their particular envirinments. The materials cover all legal means of managing conflict at community level and focus on equipping particpants to analyse and address conflict using a range of tested approaches. The manual is designed to enable you to adapt your learning experienes to your specific context.

This guide was developed to help address an agglomeration of factors disabling the optimum performance of Ward Committees and the pulling together of all municipal stakeholders. Through step by step guidance this pool of stakeholders i.e. Ward Committees, Izinduna, Community Development workers, Community Policing Forums, Health Workers, Councillors, Chiefs, Pastors, NGO’s and Businesses, will in turn ensure that local government plays it’s role in meeting people’s basic needs and in building a society in which every person plays a meaningful and valued part. Some of the many skills this guide will help capacitate participants in are the:

• Communication protocols
• Understanding ones role in relation to other stakeholders
• Understanding participatory democracy
• Applying problem solving skills