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This is a development opportunity to spend 8 weeks in Uganda, supporting an environmental enterprise with your expertise in teaching writing skills, as part of the International Learning Opportunities Programme funded by the Welsh Government.
This not-for-profit organisation is registered and based in Uganda with operations in the Mount Elgon region, and with strong links to Wales. Its tree-planting programme was born out of necessity to address severe deforestation, land degradation and climate change vulnerabilities, with the benefits of mitigating the effects of climate change, providing sustainable supplies of fuel, shelter and food and alleviating poverty.
The organisation generates a lot of information every year but has identified that little of it is publicised to influence policy, politics, and practice toward tree planting and restoration, livelihoods, gender equality, and climate change, sustainable land management, village savings and loans associations as microfinance, and its contribution to climate resilience and sustainable development. The organisation’s staff do participate in seminars and workshops, and have discovered that, much as the organisation has achieved a lot since the inception of tree planting and it has learned and evolved its activities, not much is shared. There is a need, therefore, to give voice and promote networking using bottom-up approaches built on shared values. This calls for dialogue, learning, sharing of information and experience, and critical analysis. This would help to build knowledge and perspectives, shape effective strategies, strengthen the organisation’s voice nationally, regionally, and globally, and form strategic alliances/partnerships. This capacity is currently inadequate in the organisation but with some deliberate efforts, it could be built from within the current staff.
The expected outcomes of the placement are tools and approaches to improving writing skills, and capabilities within the staff for effective dissemination of the organisation’s work through improved writing, including reports, policy briefs, scientific/peer-reviewed articles and meeting reports.
You will have expertise and experience in teaching writing for academic and professional purposes and be able to design and deliver engaging lessons and materials tailored to the needs of the learners.
For further details or to apply, email the Welsh Government Wales and Africa team at walesandafrica@gov.wales.
The International Learning Opportunities programme (ILO) provides a development opportunity to spend 8 weeks in Lesotho, Namibia or Uganda.
We source a wide range of projects with a diverse group of established partners in these three very different countries.
The ILO programme aims to improve the social, environmental and economic wellbeing of both sub-Saharan Africa and Wales through a variety of mutually beneficial projects, in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The ILO programme gives individuals from the public, business and third sectors in Wales the opportunity to work on projects designed to both enhance their leadership skills and deliver a developmental outcome for their hosts. The opportunities listed illustrate placements requested but other opportunities may also be available. Overall, we conduct about 10 placements a year and would not expect to deploy more than one person to any organisation at a time. This scheme is open to anyone who lives or works in Wales. We are particularly interested to receive applications from members of the African diaspora.
