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Practice Areas
Education & Training

Dates
1998

In Uganda, democracy has led to greater-than-ever demand for corporate development and large-scale small business creation. The PRESTO Project was developed to strengthen small business associations, foster the professional development and sharpen the management skills of business association leaders to help build the long-lasting institutions Uganda's economy needs.

Phase I

Working as a subcontractor to Management Systems International (MSI), the primary contractor on a project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), AIMD's founder, Plexus Consulting Group, LLC, designed and conducted a Business Association Workshop in Uganda for executives of the five primary business associations. As the first step in a multi-layered intervention, the workshop provided participants with training in core association management skills in the areas of: communications; code of ethics and association law; conflict management & negotiating skills; financial planning-management & sources of non-dues income; governance issues; leadership; management information systems; membership development; program development; marketing strategies for associations; policy advocacy and government relations; roles of associations in modern society; staff operations; strategic planning and volunteer-staff relations.

Phase II

In Phase II of the PRESTO initiative, Plexus staff co-hosted a two-week study tour and designed and conducted a five-day, interactive association workshop-training course in Washington for several key business association leaders in the Ugandan manufacturing and small business communities. As a result, working coalitions were forged among several of the associations to benefit their leaders and members as they begin to implement their new skills in Uganda.

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