Leadership and general management for tobacco control, Dhaka, March 2007

The first Leadership and general management for tobacco control course was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 11-20 March 2007. It was jointly organised by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the WHO and The Union, with support from the Work for a Better Bangladesh Trust and Bangladesh Anti-Tobacco Alliance. Of the 26 participants, 21 were NGO members (e.g. National Heart Foundation, Law and Society Trust Bangladesh) and five were government officials. The course faculty came from The Union’s Paris office and India Resource Centre, as well as from the WHO and other partners. A meeting was held on 10 April at which participants gave feedback on the course.


List of faculty
Dr Jose Luis Castro, Director Finance and Project, Development, The Union
Jamshed Chhor, Manager, Organisation Development and Training,
The Union
Dr Nevin Wilson, Director, India Resource Centre
Dr Partha Pratim Mandal, Regional Programme Coordinator, India Resource Centre
Dr Vishnuvardhan Kamineni, Programme Development Officer, India Resource Centre
Ms Sunetra Ghosh, ACSM Specialist, India Resource Centre
Dr Sinéad Jones, Tobacco Control Expert, The Union
Mr Eric LeGresley, The Union
Dr Khalil Rahman, Regional Advisor, Tobacco Free Initiative, WHO Regional Office for South East Asia
Dr M Mostafa Zaman, National Professional Officer, Non-Communicable Diseases, WHO Bangladesh
Saifuddin Ahmed, Coordinator, Bangladesh Anti-tobacco Alliance

Comments from the participants

“I learned the value of leadership. I used to think that management and leadership were the same thing. Now I am much clearer about it”

“I thought I could never write a proposal, but now I think that I will be able to”

“Some projects which we carefully prepare still fail. The course helped explain how that happens”

“Our capacity for organising increased greatly in the training”

“I got to know a lot of new NGOs and new people. This should help improve our network and our work”