Names & Faces
Founding Fathers
The core team of the academic faculty of C4L are real development practitioners. The co-founders both began their careers as NGO staff workers, and later moved on to contract work as trainers and evaluators.
Chuck Stephens - Born in the then Belgian Congo, now DRC, to Canadian missionaries, schooled in Uganda, and Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Graduated from Trent University (Peterborough, Ontario). Attended Regent College (Vancouver, BC) in Christian Studies. Served as a rural development worker first in Angola for 3 years with a national church organization, then in Mozambique for 3 years with World Vision in food aid, and finally in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada for 3 years as Operations Manager of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. Returned to Africa in 1991 to launch an NGO management consultancy, focusing on managerial capacity building for non-profit groups.
Alfredo Mazive - Mozambican, who oversees operations at the Academia Wumunhu campus in Matola, capital of Maputo province. A leading light when it comes to training NGOs in Mozambique. Not only is the campus used for this purpose, but Alfredo travels far and wide to deliver capacity building services. His speciality is Organization Development (OD), and he is an active member of IODA, the International OD Association. He also sits on an international advisory board for Capacity Development of civil society, striving for coherence in this field.
Board of Directors
C4L is directed by a voluntary board of five women and men meeting regularly, at a minimum three times a year, to provide corporate governance.
The officers are elected by the Board for bi-annual terms.
In 2012 they are:
- Chair - Alfredo Mazive
- Secretary - Nolwazi Lekhuleni
- Treasurer - Chuck Stephens
The other two members are Sidney Bliss and Nigel Lowe.
C4L plans to coopt more youth members as part of its emerging Succession Plan. This is in keeping with its trend to become a Youth-led organization.
TEAM STRUCTURE
Organization Development
This team is composed of several projects... End User Computing is aimed at NGOs and SMMEs. Julia Grimmer, a German volunteer, is assisting in the Mentor Centre with ICT for NGOs, the Online Menoring project, and Boardware.
Opportunities for Youth
This team is composed mainly of youth volunteers - too numerous to name - working in community activism. Their new leader of Child Protection is Mpho Singane, who is working on a Social Work degree. Nqaba Ndlovu is leading the Advocacy projects.
Social Enterprise
The Livelihood Support Unit is led by Debo Adekunle. The two technical trainers are Thami Maluka (plumbing) and Sibusiso Khumalo (solar technicians). The two entrepreneurship trainers are Martha Khosa and Donald Malumane.
Senior Management Team (SMT)
In 2012, in the light of a recent management review, the SMT will have a split-level structure - a managerial core with an academic faculty. The roles will be shared by:
Organization Development programme
Refresher courses - Chuck Stephens
ICT for NGOs - Julia Grimmer
Opportunities for Youth
Child Protection - Mpho Singane
Advocacy - Nqaba Ndlovu
Social Enterprise
Livelihood Security Unit - Debo Adekunle
Renewable Energy - Ben Christo
HELP WANTED in 2012
Volunteers and or missionaries are welcome to help C4L through this transition. Gaps include Finance, Fundraising, Communications and I.T.
Academic Faculty
Some SMT members double as programme staff - training or field work.
In some cases, project budgets allow C4L to hire trainers, but usually this is out-sourced on an as-needed basis. This depends of volumes. Some key unmentioned trainers at C4L are:
- Donald Malumane & Martha Khoza - MicroMBA
- Thami Maluka - Plumbing
- Sibusiso Khumalo - Solar
- Julia Grimmer - End User Computing
Operations Team - Staff & Volunteers
Office functions include a Finance Officer and a Filing clerk.
C4L has welcomed international volunteers in 2011 from Mennonite Central Committee and German Development Service.
Also in 2011, two international volunteers came for 3 months each, at different times, on their own steam - Jakob Bantleon from Germany and Wendy McCance from the UK.