Leadership and #Volunteerism

My name is Charles Chilufya, a youth lead and co-founder of the youth movement Kasama, currently serving as a project officer for the United Nations youth association of Zambia, hub lead for the Youth dialogue program on Sustainable development goal with Global platform Zambia, @https://www.youthmappers.org/ Alumni, volunteer and an intern with @https://crowd2map.org/, volunteered with @https://www.hotosm.org/ and as a local coordinator in Zambia with Students for liberty international organization. #Highlights I recently joined the 2nd Cohort of the Leaders Arise Program Program for young Zambian Leaders that’s being run under the auspice of the Zambian US Embassy’s American Centre for Leadership at the U.S. Embassy in Zambia. The Program is a 5 Week cohort-based Leadership Development Program (supported by the U.S. Embassy Zambia) that has been designed to grow a pool of young Zambian leaders aspiring to work particularly within the Civic, Business & Entrepreneurship as well as Public Management spaces. Modeled in part after the Mandela Washington Fellowship concept and curriculum, this Program seeks to leverage curated homegrown solutions to effectively deal with the Leadership development crises that are present within the 3 major sectors highlighted above. Leadership development is one of the most pressing issues facing most organizations and institutions within Zambia, and as the global community slowly works its way towards the achievement of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, the performance of any country, in seeking to achieve these goals, to a large extent depends on its Political Leadership. Effective Political leadership translates into prudent public policy formulation and implementation, as well as good public service delivery, to meet the needs and aspirations of all citizens. This particular cohort of the Program dabbed “Politics & Governance Cohort” is thus focusing specifically on the processes and structures that guide Political and Social Economic relationships within a country, and how this intersection helps to define the parameters of success for a country like Zambia. I am proud to be a part of this Cohort and excited to be able to contribute to the positive growth of the Political and Governance space within Zambia, en-route to the achievement of our 8th National Development Plan, Regional Agenda 2063, as well as the global SDGs. #leadershipdevelopment #capacitybuilding #SDGS #innovation #leadership