Are you a talented civil servant devoted to your
work for a local government? Are you working towards a better living
environment for the people in your municipality, district or region? Are
you 37 years old or younger?
Then you can apply now to participate in one of the
three Talentprogrammes that will be organised by Talent for Governance
in 2012.
You can make a choice between the programme themes:
"Citizen Participation & Accountabilty", "Local Economic
Development" or "Local Service Delivery & MDG's". Make sure you can
motivate your choice and show the relevance of the programme to your
ambitions.
This year we have added a new element to the
programme. Every talent must submit a 'Real life case' as a project to
write a Back-Home-Action plan for. The employer must agree to this
project and support the implementation of the action plan. The results
will be posted on the network through the regular updates of the Talent.
Talent for Governance enables
ambitious, young civil servants working for local governments in
developing and transitional countries (see country list)
to follow an international Talentprogramme in the Netherlands. This
Talentprogramme consists of participation in a training course at The
Hague Academy for Local Governance in The Netherlands, followed by an
internship in a Dutch municipality or province and a Networking event.
The Talentprogrammes take three weeks.
Talent for Governance pays for
travel and accommodation costs, meals and participation fee. We do also
ask a small contribution from our talents, once selected. This shows
their commitment and their willingness to also invest in themselves.
More specific information on this contribution can be found in the rules and regulations booklet under parapraph 4.8.
The training course attended during the talent
programme, gives young civil servants a chance to experience policy
practices from a local perspective. Experts in the field of local
governance practice will be guiding them through this experience. During
the course, the talents will gain knowledge and skills which will be
useful back in their workplace. They'll work to write a
Back-Home-action-plan in which they incorporate a real-live-case from
from their own community. The real-life-case project proposal needs to
be submitted with the application form, and the employer needs to
approve of the project.
In addition, they will
meet civil servants from all over the world. This gives them a chance to
exchange ideas and learn from each other’s experiences. Possible topics
of the courses are: (female) leadership, citizen participation,
municipal management, local economic development, management of natural
resources, or the provision of public services like water, health and
education.
After the two training course
weeks, they will get the chance to visit one of our internship
municipalities or provinces in the Netherlands for a week. These local
governments will organise an internship programme of a couple of days,
during which the talents get into contact with the practical side of
local governance. Topics discussed during the course will come back
during these days and the programme is linked to their own
specific work interests. During this week the talents will meet many
Dutch civil servants who work in the same field as they do at home. In
this way they are able to really exchange practices with each other.
Moreinfo: http://talentforgovernance.com/news/news/call-for-applications-talentprogrammes-2012/
