WHO WE ARE
The Institute for Governance and Leadership Studies in Africa (IGLSA) is an international non-State intellectual and Professional Resource Centre established as a concerted and constructive response to challenges of Africa development. A multi-disciplinary Centre, the IGLSA attempts to address some of the skills gaps that may have impeded development in Africa with the primary aim of enhancing the Continent’s capacity to harness its enormous potentials. The paradox of Africa is the pervasive poverty and poor infrastructure in the midst of almost limitless human and material resource base.
Our Vision
"To become the premier hub for Governance and Leadership Training, Policy Reforms while promoting good governance in Africa."
Our Mission
"IGLSA exists to initiate programs on leadership and governance, with a view to strengthening participatory governance. Through providing quality training, Certification programs and increased civic engagement, we enhance capacity for quality performance as a constructive response to the challenges of Africa’s development."
Our Objectives
- To undertake research and documentation on both national and international dimensions of matters such as Governance, Civil Society/Political Party Management, and Political Security as part of efforts to strengthen democratic practice in Africa.
- Provide training, capacity building, and certification on Governance, Civil Society/Political Party Management, Political Security and related disciplines.
- Provide training and capacity building on leadership and leadership related matters.
- Provide consultancy services to State and non-State Organisations within and outside the Africa Continent.
- To research into and undertake training on voters/civic education, elections and elections related matters within the Africa Continent and other emerging democracies.
- Undertake elections observation within the Africa Continent and beyond as part of deliberate comparative research efforts on elections.
- Collaborate with Local and International Academic and Professional Institutions in pursuance of its objectives.
- Establish academic journals/magazines to promote scholarship in areas within its purview.
- Organise Conferences and Seminars to encourage intellectual discourse in its areas of concern.
- Cooperate with, and render services to, State and Non State Institutions within the African Continent and beyond.
- Undertake research into problems of African development and disseminate findings to countries in Africa with the primary aim of solving these problems.
- To undertake effective continental -wide advocacy on Climate Change, its implications on the future of the Continent as well as necessary remedial measures.
- To study the extent to which the United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals (MGDs) was beneficial to Africa and carry out effective continental-wide advocacy on the succeeding global programme, The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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