UGANDA: Capacity Building Workshop is an eye Opener- Participants

Participants
of AMECEA Capacity Building Workshop in Uganda for top Management officials
from the Dioceses across the country have been described the workshop as timely
rich in information and an eye opener to new ideas in relation to the issues
they deal with almost on daily basis.

 

These
sentiments were expressed during the closing ceremony of the workshop, which
has been going in Kampala Uganda from Monday 4th. 

 

“We are
going back to our diocese with new ideas and new visions,” says Msgr. Matthew
Odong, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Gulu.

 

“The
workshop was fantastic, very enriching; it brought us together and the
presenters were very good, they knew their subject matter and the way they
carried out their presentations made us actively participate,” he said adding
that they look forward take the knowledge they have acquired home and put it
into practice so that they may effectively support their Bishops in the
governance of the Church.

 

While
thanking AMECEA and CUEA for organizing the workshop, Msgr. Odong appealed for
continuity of the programe. “Capacity Building is very good for us who are
involved in the difference pastoral, governance and administration of our
diocese,” he said.

 

Msgr. John
Baptist Kauta, Secretary General of Uganda Bishops Conference had earlier
described the workshop as a great opportunity to build capacity on the various
talents and abilities God gave us. Speak on Tuesday 5th when he
officially opened the workshop he said that the purpose of the workshop was to
build capacity in the dioceses participants represented.

 

“This
workshop is an opportunity for each one of us here to learn new ways of
handling some of the common and most challenging issues in our dioceses such as
staff turnover, which is a common scenario in most Catholic institutions,” he
said.

 

Uganda
Episcopal conference has been the second last Conference of AMECEA to benefit
from the program. The next conference will be Zambia.