The National Coordinator of Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food (SiLNoRF), Mohammed S. Conteh has on Thursday, October 8, 2020, said that in the interest of Social Justice Leaders must ensure not only the equal treatment of equals but, also the unequal treatment of unequal. He made the comment while he spoke on the principles of equity in relation to leadership. Conteh is also the Executive Director for Mankind’s Actions for Development Accreditation Movement (MADAM)
He was addressing the heads of SiLNoRF’s 16 member organizations at the opening of a two-day training workshop on leadership, governance and management at MADAM Conference Hall in Makeni.
The training was organized by the Capacity Building Project (CBP) team, led by John Y. Tarawallie, and was geared towards strengthening and deepening the abilities of heads of the various organizations to enable them get good results and take their respective outfits to the next level.
M. S. Conteh, while expounding on the principles of equity, touched on the roles of individuals in management. “Management involves a high level of planning, it makes up of a lot of things that one cannot take for granted,” he cautioned.
The SiLNoRF’s National reiterated the importance of equity and roles in management. Speaking further on roles, Conteh encouraged all the Directors/Coordinators to inculcate the practice of giving a freehand to their subordinates to do their jobs or creating the space for others to step up in performing their duties. “Allowing people to play their own roles is all part of management and governance,” he maintained.
A reason, he explained, as to why most times people don’t see him in many activities is because he believes there are people in the organization that are supposed to do those jobs.
He said the training is a follow-up project to a previous one which entailed a lot of things, and encouraged the project team not to use what he referred to as the blanket approach in the implementation of the project. “There has been an assessment that was conducted to assess the development of each and every organization within the network which they should use,” he said, adding, “I hope that participants will apply knowledge acquired in the training which will contribute to transform their respective organizations,” he concluded.
The two-day training was facilitated by Lecturer, Unisa Patrick Kamara (UPK), Head of Development Studies Department, University of Makeni (UNIMAC).
By Ibrahim S.Bangura
15/10/2020. ISSUE NO: 7931