Learning & Impact

IIE and the LDM program are committed to ongoing learning and to incorporating that learning back into our programs. In collaboration with LDM staff, Leadership Fellows engage in periodic reflection on not only what learning is taking place at the individual and organizational levels, but what impact the program is having at the community and national levels.

Final program evaluation Reports

In early 2010, the Institute of International Education partnered with the Research Center for Leadership in Action (RCLA), at New York University's Wagner School of Public Service, to conduct a pioneering participatory evaluation of the LDM program.

International Leadership Association (ILA)

The LDM program has also worked to increase the participation of leaders from our focal countries in the leadership discourse through participation in various international gatherings, including the International Leadership Association’s annual conference. Over the past several years, LDM staff and Leadership Fellows have presented sessions at ILA that share experiences and lessons from our work in developing leadership for improving reproductive health outcomes.

Study Tours

The LDM program has documented its learning in various publications, including "Study Tours and Developing Leaders," (PDF) which illustrates the important role study tours have played in the program and what we have learned about organizing successful exposure visits.

Research Grants

In 2009, LDM initiated a competitive research grant process to encourage Leadership Fellows to expand upon and document unique cultural discourses on leadership and leadership development in their home countries. The grants were designed to support research on specific questions about leadership, and more specifically leadership for systems and social change. This discourse on leadership has not yet fully emerged or been documented and there has been a growing interest on the part of Leadership Fellows and others close to the LDM program to assume some responsibility for this. Increasingly, the questions emerging from LDM focal countries are: “What does our history teach us about leadership? How does culture interact with leadership and vice versa? How can we document what we are learning from our own cultural history and experience as it relates to our work in reproductive health?”

The six LDM leadership development research projects awarded are:

 

Ethiopia

• Leadership Initiatives in Awura Amba Community: Case Study on Zumra Nuru

Nigeria

• Reproductive Health and Cultural Leadership in Northern Nigeria; What Makes a Difference?

• Leadership Development Programs for the northern Woman – What are the ways forward?

Pakistan

• Promoting Lady Health Workers as Reproductive Health Leaders

• Women in Pakistan Their Leadership Role & Contributions in Health Sector

The Philippines

• Leadership Development for Reproductive Health Among Filipino Youth: Status, Issues, and Needs (An Exploratory Study)

 

 

Last Updated: September 2011