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Wear Your Cape to Work™
Aligning Projects & Empowering People
In today's episode we talk with Emma Kelly, a program manager from The Water Project. She shares about managing projects in the humanitarian sector where projects can span across continents...where part of your resource force is the community you are working in... and when you don't always have access to the internet. Hear about how program managers align projects with strategic initiatives and empower people to do their best work for a very important cause.
Episode Highlights:
- Emma's Passion for Water
- Community management in Humanitarian Projects
- Project Implementation in the Humanitarian Sector
- From Research to Projects in Action
- Community as Stakeholders and resources
- 3 Main program locations: Uganda, Kenya, Sierra Leone.
- Mission to provide full saturation/coverage of the area. A framework of coverage
- Program Management: Managing Projects: Aligning projects with strategic initiatives.
- Program Management: People Management: Empowering people to do their best work.
- Cultural nuances of Intercultural teams
- Diversity of Understanding = Diversity of Ideas
- Coming into a new community
- Strengths of Intercultural teams.
- Managing teams in different countries
- Project Types in the Water Sector
- Ground Nut Soup
- The goal of full saturation
- Shared vision with teams
- Transparency with public and donors
- How can you support the Water Project
- The Water Promise
- Commitment to Monitoring and Reporting and Evaluating Projects
- Emma’s superpower of empowering people to do their best work.
- Relationships, Trust, Reliability: The Water Project's pillars
- How do you manage projects without the internet
- Working to understand risks and issues to reduce future downtime.
- Sticking to the plan when there are obstacles.
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