Purpose Statement
AFRICA LEADERSHIP STUDY
The purpose of the Africa Leadership Study is to identify strategic opportunities for supporting the development of Christian leaders in Francophone, Anglophone and Lusophone Africa. In conjunction with African Christian leaders, this will be accomplished through these strategic steps:
- • Assessing what is already being done in terms of leadership development
- • Identifying opportunities where Western donors can and should be investing their resources for optimal effect
- • Identifying challenges that will work against effective deployment of resources
- • Creating a means of following up to assess the effectiveness of resources invested in leadership development
The benefits and outcomes of the study will also inform the African Partners of the ALS Project and can serve as a resource for Africans in understanding current patterns, practices and programs of leadership to be used in their visioning and planning for the future. In that context these are the strategic steps:
- • Providing African churches and the market-place leadership with details of effective initiatives as resources they can learn or draw from and in some cases replicate appropriately.
• Providing case studies for institutions of higher learning.- • Generating data that Governments can use for leadership development and intervention.
- • Generating literature on leadership.