{"id":594,"date":"2015-01-09T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2015\/01\/09\/malawi-ecm-conducts-team-building\/"},"modified":"2016-05-03T09:40:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T09:40:51","slug":"malawi-ecm-conducts-team-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2015\/01\/09\/malawi-ecm-conducts-team-building\/","title":{"rendered":"MALAWI: ECM Conducts \u2018Team Building Workshop\u2019 for the Secretariat Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Members of staff for the Episcopal<br \/>\nConference of Malawi (ECM) Catholic Secretariat have started the year 2015 with<br \/>\nan orientation workshop termed \u201cTeam Building workshop\u201d held in the Lakeshore<br \/>\ndistrict of Salima from 8-9th January this year.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n&nbsp;<\/div>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ECMGroupPhoto-1024x598.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ECMGroupPhoto-1024x598.jpg\" height=\"232\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Catholic Secretariat Staff<\/em> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe workshop brought together all<br \/>\nthe 48 staff members from all the Commissions under ECM which includes,<br \/>\nCatholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP),Catholic Development Commission<br \/>\nin Malawi (CADECOM), Education, Pastoral, Health and Communications.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAccording to the Acting Secretary<br \/>\nGeneral for ECM, Rev Fr. Emmanuel Chimombo, the workshop aimed at bringing<br \/>\ntogether ECM staff members so as to unite and work as a team in this year\u2019s<br \/>\nactivities; embrace professionalism, efficiency and effectiveness for the staff<br \/>\nas they carry out their duties.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cBy coming here together, it<br \/>\nsymbolizes that we are a family. We therefore have to reflect well that<br \/>\nwhatever we do is in line with the Vision and Mission of ECM. Let us realize<br \/>\nthat we are all at Catholic Secretariat to evangelize through our Commissions,\u201d<br \/>\nhe said adding that \u201cLet\u2019s strive to carry out our duties in an efficient, effective<br \/>\nand no discrimination.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nOne of the facilitators to the<br \/>\nworkshop, Fr. Andrew Kaufa who is also the Communications Secretary at ECM highlighted<br \/>\non the need for Catholic Secretariat\u2019s staff to make sure that they attach<br \/>\ntheir day to day activities in line with the Catholic Social Teachings; while Chris<br \/>\nChisoni of Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) said the role of<br \/>\nCatholic Secretariat\u2019s staff is to represent the Church by engaging people<br \/>\nthrough its structures which are Commissions, departments, conferences,<br \/>\nprograms, statements and letters.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nOther topics that were looked<br \/>\ninto during the workshop included policies on Vehicles, medical, HIV work, employment,<br \/>\nprocurement and Child Protection policies. The workshop also deliberated on the<br \/>\nFinancial Management System, procedures and administrative procedures and<br \/>\nCommunications mechanisms.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">&nbsp;<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">SOURCE: Prince Henderson , ECM<br \/>\nCommunications Officer<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of staff for the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) Catholic Secretariat have started the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2624,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/2624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}