Training essential for capacity building

The NKS regards well-trained members of independent base organisations as cornerstones for a functional sports infrastructure in any country. Capacity-building makes these organisations far better able to promote community development.

Staff members and volunteers are trained at the Sports Administration and Sports Leadership programmes with a view toward boosting organisational capacity.

Concurrent activities include educating trainers, instructors and teachers and organisational facilitators, so that the country, province or district ultimately has the capacity to run the programmes independently and to support base organisations.

Programmes

The programmes are run primarily by NKS instructors in conjunction with local instructors, who are in turn trained on the job to work as instructors. After the programmes have concluded, the country, province or district will have the capacity to run and maintain the programmes independently. Participants in the programme ordinarily come from a local organisation and are enrolled on behalf of this organisation.

Learning through experience is pivotal in the programme, as is providing feedback about the material learned to co-workers. The management and boards of the organisations from which the participants originate become involved in the programmes thanks to presentations, intake and progress interviews, homework assignments and traineeships. This helps the organisations build their capacity.

The NKS uses local resident expertise wherever possible. If such expertise is insufficiently available, the NKS dispatches instructors to train local rank and file. In addition to executive members, instructors are trained. This enables the local partner to train people independently. The NKS hopes to deploy trained rank and file from the South to work in other countries in the South in the future. These arrangements will be known as South-South exchanges or deployments.