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International Leadership Association

The International Leadership Association (ILA) is a global network for all those who study, practice, and teach leadership. The annual ILA Global Conference provides an opportunity for global leaders to share and learn about a variety of leadership work that is being conducted around the word. LDM has been extremely instrumental in adding to the international focus of the ILA by sponsoring many people and promoting research on international leadership.

Two Way Transformation:
Developing Transformative Leaders and Transforming Leadership Development Programs in Non-Western Contexts

2008 ILA Global Conference. Global Leadership: Portraits of the Past, Visions for the Future

How do transformative leaders exercise leadership on controversial issues in conservative contexts? Panelists from the Institute of International Education's Reproductive Health Leadership Program in Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, and the Philippines will explore the interplay between western designed leadership programs and leaders themselves, and their challenges in exercising transformational leadership.

  • Kamyla Marvi Tapal Institute of International Education, LDM Program in Pakistan
  • Haddis Mulugeta Institute of International Education, LDM Program in Ethiopia
  • Magdalena Lopez Institute of International Education, LDM Program in the Philippines
  • Namrata Jha Institute of International Education, LDM Program in India

Leadership Development for Reproductive Health among Filipino Youth

2008 ILA Global Conference. Global Leadership: Portraits of the Past, Visions for the Future

The current situation in the Philippines suggests the need to focus on health and development policies, programs, and services for young people. The presenter will share profiles of selected youth leaders and qualitative research focusing on the needs of young people for appropriate, adequate, and timely leadership development programs, that will help them realize their full potentials as leaders.

  • Jackylin Robel Commission on Population in the Philippines

Leadership, Women, and Cultural Challenges

Women in Pakistan: Their Leadership Role & Contributions in the Health Sector

ILA 2009. Prague, Czech Republic, Leadership for Transformation

Participants will explore a variety of current leadership challenges encountered by women in diverse cultural contexts including: challenges faced by women leaders in the health sector in Pakistan; women’s autonomy as a component of a global view on transformational leadership; and cultural differences and similarities of women leaders' self perceptions.

  • Qudsia Mehmood Population Council in Pakistan

From Global to Local: Adaptation and Accommodation of Leadership Models in Health in an Islamic Country Context

2008 ILA Global Conference. Global Leadership: Portraits of the Past, Visions for the Future

Since 2000, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has funded leadership development programs to improve the delivery of reproductive health care in five developing countries. In Nigeria and Pakistan, two countries where the program currently operates, over 250 individuals have participated in various leadership development activities. Often, leadership program participants are exposed to western and other global ideas and must, in practice, translate these ideas to their local contexts and cultures in order to lead social change. Panelists will reflect upon how they are exercising health leadership in these diverse Muslim contexts, from Islamic scholars providing family planning guidance to their faithful to practitioners delivering reproductive health services which are sometimes considered controversial from an Islamic point of view.

  • Dr. Yahaya Hashim Development Research Projects Centre in Nigeria
  • Raana Zahid Public Health Practitioner in Pakistan
  • Shehu Usman Muhammad Provost, College of Health Sciences & Technology in Nigeria; African Forum of Faith Based Organizations on Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS
  • Dr. Ali Mir Population Council in Pakistan

Evolving Models of Leadership Development:
Learning from Experiences in Developing Countries

2008 ILA Global Conference. Global Leadership: Portraits of the Past, Visions for the Future

For over seven years the David and Lucile Packard Foundation has been funding leadership development programs to improve the delivery of reproductive health care in Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, and the Philippines. Program participants have been exposed to a variety of leadership activities to help them exercise leadership in complex social, cultural, and political environments. Translating western models of individual leadership development to cultures that are either collectivist in nature or have a much more hierarchical model of leadership has been an area of continued learning for the program. Additionally, the program has nurtured the development of active networks of leaders who can engage in ongoing learning and collaboration to take action around specific reproductive health related issues. It has also sought to work with local institutions to design and deliver programs that can be sustained for years to come.

Over the years, the Foundation and its partners have cultivated lessons from experience and continue to adapt the program to improve its effectiveness. In this session, presenters will examine lessons from three key program areas across the five countries. We will focus on questions such as: What are the different styles and models of networking? What are the lessons from building partnerships with local institutions for leadership development? And, how do we adapt our models developing leaders to respond to the unique cultural milieu?

  • Zosimo Lee University of the Philippines
  • Eugene Kim Blue Oxen Associates
  • Cheryl Francisconi Institute of International Education, Ethiopia
  • Sanjay Pandey Institute of International Education, LDM Program in India

What’s Culture Got to Do with It?
Culture and Leadership in Diverse Contexts:
Nigeria, Pakistan, India, and the Philippines

2007 ILA Global Conference. Leadership: Impact, Culture and Sustainability

Over the past seven years, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation has awarded millions of dollars in grants to nurture and sustain leadership for health and development in five developing countries. This panel will examine lessons learned as the foundation has sought out leadership approaches that are relevant and effective in diverse cultural contexts. Specifically, the panel will look at the role of culture and history in building and sustaining effective leadership for health and development in Nigeria, Pakistan, India, and the Philippines. Practitioners will share concrete examples and challenges on how they seek to mobilize models and approaches that differ from the prevailing western concepts, and seek to leverage the unique religious, historical, or cultural assets of these countries. Speakers will examine the success and challenges of adapting leadership models from other countries in a way that promotes in-country ownership and defies negative stereotypes of leadership as well. Attendees will gain a deeper appreciation of the conceptual and practical issues pertaining to leadership development across and within specific cultures.

  • Yahaya Hashim Development Research Projects Center
  • Neelofar Sami Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University
  • Lester CoutinhoThe David and Lucile Packard Foundation
  • Kalayaan Pulido-Constantino Philippines Legislators Committee on Population and Development

Leadership Learning Community International Learning Circle

2007 ILA Global Conference. Leadership: Impact, Culture and Sustainability

Leadership development across countries (particularly developing countries) must consider cultural differences to be effective. Practitioners have much to learn from non-western cultures about leadership. Through the Leadership Learning Community, a group of leadership practitioners working internationally formed an International Learning Circle intended as a learning space for sharing of experiences (approaches, processes, tools) and questions. All are invited to join.

  • Cheryl Francisconi Institute of International Education in the USA
  • Deborah Meehan Leadership Learning Community in the USA