Initiative for Leadership and Democracy in Africa (iLEDA)

iLEDA's training focuses on strengthening democratic leadership throughout the continent by fortifying democratic values, skills, and knowledge of citizen leaders, political leaders, young people with potential, political party youth wings, and others. Training focuses on citizen agency, constructive and collaborative relations between (local) governance structures and citizen representations, political organising, peaceful resolutions to conflict and elections, governance challenges, sustainability challenges, hard political skills, theory, and other relevant topics. Experiential learning, study circles, participatory learning, projects, and field trips are all central to iLeda’s methodology.

iLEDA offers several training products, all with a different audiences in mind and witha different curriculum, but all working towards the same goal: a prospering democratic Africa with active citizens and representatives of peoples at its heart. iLEDA is currently running the following activities.

• iLEDA School for citizen leaders
• iLEDA Academy for a new generation of democratic political leaders
• iLEDA Services, offering tailor-made consulting on training, democracy education, and leadership
• iLEDA Network, offering trainees follow-up support and peer-to-peer sharing in addition to a growing continental network of democratic practitioners.

The iLEDA journal is distributed to the iLEDA network across Africa, including training alumni, trainers, partner organisations, and anybody who is interested in their work. The iLEDA journal is a strategy for informing the network about progress, achievements, and recent events. It provides information about on-going activities, planned work, and events, as well as ideas and analysis arising from iLeda's work.

Click here to watch a video of iLEDA's work in Mozambique.

Citizen Engagement