Ecclesial Ethical Leadership Capacity Strengthening Course

The need for ethical leadership rooted in good corporate governance is increasingly being recognized as crucial for organizational development in developing countries and in the churches in particular.  Appropriate policy framework and conducive institutional environment are critical for enforcement of corporate governance particularly in the churches in order to remail competitive and cope with challenges of economic globalization and the rapidly changing environment.

Some of the issues affecting the churches and church related institutions in Africa are: inadequate of interest by private investors to do business with religious institutions ;  lack of transparency; difficulties in keeping to contractual agreements; overly fluid timelines; difficult socio-political environments; complex or insufficient fiscal and legal regulations; lack of compliance government regulations and extant laws; inadequate diversification of funding sources by churches; lack of adequate cash to develop the churches assets; weak management/ insufficient knowledge of financial and assets management by churches ’ assets managers and hierarchical, leaders lacking knowledge of the properties owned by the churches, haphazard and unstructured plans for acquisition of church assets, failure to utilize opportunities such as growing urbanization in order to seek better returns on use of the church assets, use of misleading theology to perpetuate abuse of assets and rigid organizational culture among others

In order for the churches to improve their effectiveness in ecclesial mission and prophetic obligations as agency for societal transformation, there is need to build the capacities of the church leadership so that the churches and their institutions may be governed in a manner worthy of honor and transformational in outlook in line with the biblical admonition of Paul’s epistle to 1 Timothy 5:17.

The training is expected to benefit the churches and church institutions in the following ways; promote good stewardship of the resources by the churches, improve the alignment of the investments undertaken by the churches in adherence with the ethical values of the institutions, , strengthen the effective management of human resources by the churches in line with the human resource management principles, highlight and mitigate leadership gaps in the churches and promote inclusivity in the affairs of the churches  among others

Overall goal 
Equipped church leaders that are enterprising, reflective, adaptive, and resilient to respond to the constantly changing and evolving needs of society they are serving as churches.