UGANDA: AMECEA Plans to roll out the Second Cycle for Capacity Building Project

AMECEA plans to embark on the
second cycle of the Capacity Building Program in July this year by starting another
program for training after finishing the first cycle which had been running for
the last three years. 

 

Addressing participants of
Capacity Building Workshop held in Kampala, Uganda on Tuesday 5th
May 2015, the AMECEA Secretary General Rev. Fr. Ferdinand Lugonzo said, “AMECEA
has rolled out the trainings in the last three years and we have covered almost
all the conferences except Zambia in the first cycle. We hope that starting from
the next half of this year, we shall be addressing the next theme of the
training which will be chosen in consultation with all the parties concerned.” 

 

Fr. Lugonzo explained that the
capacity building program was rolled out after the endorsement of Bishops
during the 17th AMECEA Plenary Assembly and charged AMECEA
Secretariat with the responsibility of coordination. “So far more than seventy
Bishops from AMECEA Conferences have benefited from the project,” he said.

 

“Immediately after the endorsement,
we singled out five key areas the training should address. The first area is Leadership and Management targeting the closest
collaborators of Bishops in administration,” he said.  

 

He told workshop participants who
consisted of top management staff from all Dioceses in Uganda, among them
Vicars general and Diocesan Chancellors.

 

Fr. Lugonzo said that the second area
for the training is ‘Youth Ministry and
Chaplaincy Apostolate.’ He said, “in our work we need to address more about
the youth and the people who are serving them, otherwise we might lose the
future of the Church.”

 

According to Fr Lugonzo, the
third area for the training will be on ‘Communication’
as a necessary component of evangelization. “We want our agents of
evangelization to understand what is at stake when it comes to information
technology (IT) and the use of communication for evangelization, in order not
to be left out in a world that has been swept by the new media technology,” he
said.

 

He said that the fourth area to
be addressed will be on ‘Planning and
Project Management’, especially on developing skills for strategic pastoral
plan. “If you don’t plan well then you are planning to fail,” he said.

 

The last area to be focused on by
AMECEA Capacity Building is about ‘Methods of fundraising and Financial Administration.
“This particular theme will ensure that we remain a credible Church in all
matters of finance,” he said.