This Leadership and Municipal Management course answers questions like: How do you develop a vision for your municipality and make it reality? How can you involve different stakeholders? And how can you manage your administration effectively? Topics that will be addressed are the development of organisational and human resources and the use of financial management systems, planning arrangements, evaluation tools and performance based management. During interactive sessions you will learn about the Leadership Benchmark as a comprehensive tool for improving leadership in local government.

This course will help you:
- develop and implement a clear and inspiring vision;
- mobilise relevant stakeholders, including national and regional governments, international organisations and local NGOs and citizens;
- provide leadership for your civil servants;
- improve management structures in your organisation in the field of finances, information and communication, human resources and accountability.

NFP (Nuffic) fellowship
The Netherlands organisation for international cooperation in higher education (NUFFIC) offers the opportunity to apply for a fellowship for this training course, as part of the Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NFP) for short courses. To see if you are eligible for a fellowship and to learn more about the rules and regulations regarding the fellowship, please see www.nuffic.nl/nfp.
If you would like to apply for this NFP fellowship you have to:
- Send us your application form for this training course and
- register in the online Nuffic database Scholarships online through the following link: www.nuffic.nl/sol
You must send us the application form for the course and register in SOL between 17 July and 2 October, 2012 ! Applications send beyond 2 October 2012 will not be considered.