GOVERNANCE WORKSHOP

NairoBits focuses on empowering the CBO organizations that she works with from the informal settlements. We just concluded a Governance and Management workshop held at the GoDown- Arts-center where we hosted almost 15 representatives from across the informal settlements within Nairobi. We engaged our partners through a TNA (training Needs Assessment) to know what governance issues could emerge from the workshop as well as look at the training gaps that existed.



What is in it for our CBO partners?

Our future plans are steadfastly anchored on the strong support we received from both the donor world and the CBO partners. Donors such as IYF, Samsung, EU, Terre Des Homme, Edukans and Educaids have constantly financed our programs so that we offer free education to the disadvantaged youth from the slums. Our partners stand to benefit from the broad influence we command through publicity within the East Africa through initiatives such as KampaBits, MusomaBits in Tanzania, ZanziBits, and AddisBits. We are also accredited by one of the best design colleges in Holland RocA12 even though in the circles of our interventions we offer programs that sit well in the domain of Vocational learning.



The main objective of this workshop was to sensitize the CBO’s on the good practices of governance and management as emphasized by established sound organization that implement the recommended UN standards. While highlights of the workshop were the discussion forums where we shared points on Governance and management challenges we all faced within our diverse organizations. From these discussions it emerged that our partners needed more skills empowerment on how to: do strategic planning, effective financial reporting, and mobilization of resources, effective follow-up structures through tracer surveys or monitoring and evaluations.



In this workshop we also took time to share the MGD awards we won with the CBO partners. The award was for the category of the Youth Empowerment agenda eight in the Millennium development goals. NairoBits won the award for being the leading organization in this category for having changed the lives of so many youth through the ICT and multimedia design programs that equipped youth with hands-on skills knowledge and opportunities such as jobs, internships, micro credit enterprises, and Business incubation or business processing centers. As to this MDG awards achievement they all appreciated the collective effort that has been the hall mark of the NairoBits–CBO partnership we have had for years now.



You can also catch up with the latest from our organization in our monthly newsletter at this link: for the month of September.
http://nairobits.com/newsletter/