WDB Training Academy
Targeting Poverty through training
The first training session of the year for future Siyakhula Centre Managers took place from the 1st to the 5th of April 2019 at the
18/04/2019
TRAINING ACADEMY PROGRAM
Our history
In 2015 The WDB Group completed the development pentagon with the WDB Developmental Training Academy Program (TAP) to build skills in the communities we serve and therefore ensure a higher impact of the programs on the populations where we
work.
TRAINING ACADEMY PROGRAM
What do we do?
The WDB Training Academy aims to train a new cadre of community workers who would become champions of women’s empowerment and poverty reduction. Internal staff training is geared towards assisting them to acquire accredited qualifications and thereby improve their skills base and further develop their careers.
Another role of the Academy is to train more Development Facilitators and Development Assistants in WDB Trust operational areas. This will lead to a higher impact in communities in which WDB Trust operates.
The Academy has developed training manuals for the Siyakhula MFI and is currently developing material for Zenzele. The Academy will revise training materials for the Computer Based Functional Literacy (CBFL) Programme. It will also develop materials for literacy for pre-school children and adult education.
Vision
To be a developmental ‘hub’ enabling capable communities which are competent and sustainable.
Mission
To provide women, children and youth of under-resourced rural areas with appropriate skills and competencies enabling poverty eradication through innovative means for self- development.
TRAINING ACADEMY PROGRAM
Objectives
To provide The WDB Trust Development MFI’s and other NPOs serving poor rural communities with an appropriately skilled pool of workers.
To deliver core skills training to improve service delivery.
To provide learning and development opportunities aligned to the career paths as a retention mechanism.
To develop strategic partnerships focussing on the ones that are already accredited.
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Values
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Timeline
1991
The WDB Group was founded.
1992-2016
TAP supported the Micro-finance with staff and client training.
2017
TAP was registered as the Training Academy Trust (TAT).
2017-2020
The entire world hit by Covid-19 impacted negatively on the expansion of the TAP.
2017-2020
The TAT ceased to be a stand alone entity and transitioned back to be a WDB Trust Program again.
2022-
24 February 2022 Presenting the TAP5-year plan to the executive conference.
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National Referents
The Training Academy Programme (TAP) has in its National referents the National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based Violence and Feminicide from the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities of South Africa and, The Development Caravan Model of Poverty Eradication from the South African Women in Dialogue (SAWID).
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International Referents
TAP is relevant to some of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The TAP addresses the following SDG’s in its strategy to address the problems identified:
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The Training Academy Programme (TAP) Blogs
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Update: WDB Training Academy
Computer-Based Functional Literacy Programmes The WDB Trust Training Academy facilitates computer-based functional literacy (CBLF) programmes in Sigweje in Ladysmith & Kwa-Madlala Primary School in Elandskop
07/12/2018
