Strategic Plan 2023-2025
Cameroon Council for Educational Leadership and Management Society (CCELMS)
Centre for Research and Leadership for Sustainable Development
Strategic areas of focus:
SDGs cannot be separated from the implementation of relevant policies in an age of nationalism, conflict and division, inequality and development, upholding human rights, press freedom and democracy
Our work will align closely to the SDG’s focusing on the following goals:
Access to Quality Education SDG4
Good Health and Wellbeing SDG3
Achieve Gender Equality SDG5
End Poverty SDG1
Reduce Inequality SDG10
Decent Work & Economic Growth SDG 8
Protect the Environment SDG15
Peace and Justice and Strong Institution SDG16
Create Partnership for the Goals SDG17
Empowering People
Strategic Plan 2023-2025
The Cameroon Council for Educational Leadership and Management Society (CCELMS)
This Strategic Plan describes the main priorities of the CCELMS for the period 2023-2025.
About CCELMS
Cameroon Council for Educational Leadership and Management Society (CCELMS) is a none profit in Limbe, Cameroon Registration (No. 610/G.37/D14/VOL.II/SAAJP) based international association of individual and institutional members dedicated to provide solutions in all aspects of economic, social, cultural, good governance, human and environmental sustainability challenges in the world. CCELMS is the National Affiliate of the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and Management (CCEAM)
CCELMS Background
Founded in 2014, by Dr Frederick Ebot Ashu. CCELMS offers various services for knowledge sharing and awareness raising that include: Online Information Dissemination, Sustainable Leadership Content Development, Senior and Middle Leadership Development, Promoting the National Professional Qualification Educational Leaders and Managers, Business Start-Up and Entrepreneurship, Research and Publication (Education Leadership and Management Studies), Employment and Training, Governance and Democracy Initiative, The Sustainable Development Program on the Journal of Educational Leadership and Management Studies (ELMS) in all areas related to sustainable development.
Vision
Our vision is to acquire, collecting and creating reliable useful information about all aspects of sustainability and sustainable development
Our Mission
To offer professional sustainability information services for individuals and organisations. This mission is composed of two important parts, one is acquiring, collecting and creating reliable information. The other part is disseminating, delivering and communicating that information to the users who need it. CCELMS aims to develop international network of individuals and institutional members whose profession has to do with sustainability.
Our values are:
Morality
Altruism
Equity
Services
CELMS offers various services for knowledge sharing and awareness raising that include: Online Information Dissemination, Sustainable Leadership Content Development, Senior and Middle Leadership Development, Promoting the National Professional Qualification Educational Leaders and Managers, Business Start-Up and Entrepreneurship, Research and Publication (Education Leadership and Management Studies), Employment and Training, Governance and Democracy Initiative, The Sustainable Development Program
Online Information Sharing Platform
The CCELMS Information Sharing Platform (CISP) is the most flexible and comprehensive platform to support secure Government, Public Sector Agency, Organisations and Individual scholar’s outreach. The community platform supports a range of information sharing, notification, collaboration and management capabilities that are ideally suited to support internal teams, departments or businesses as well as wider groups and initiatives that will provide controlled access across a range of stakeholders, industry partners, business or even the general public. Our main aim is to create easy and innovative online information platform that provide instant access to the users regarding the latest information and resources that best reflects behavioural, social, economic, political, cultural, legal, environmental, and technological topics.
Sustainable Leadership Content Development
CCELM’s team members having worked in the field of sustainable leadership development for many years are highly skilled and experiences in developing information and creative consent on a range of subjects for a varied audience including private and public organisations as well as individuals for their official or personal usage. The content materials created by CCELMS editors is rigorously researched, creatively visualized, and professionally designed in order to ensure maximum impact. CCELMS can design content for a variety range of applications including scientific publications, professional websites, educational platforms and e-learning modules.
Senior Leadership Development
The aim of this course is to develop knowledge, understanding and a critical perspective – based upon evidence drawn from research, scholarship, practice and the wider literature – of the work, lives, careers and perspectives of senior managers as leaders within educational institutions and contexts. At the end of the module course members, drawing upon the published literature, along with ideas and evidence from their own research and experience, and any other relevant sources, should be able to: articulate critically and analytically what is known, inter alia, of the lives and careers, the values and qualities, the strategies and tactics, and the impact of senior managers
within educational institutions; articulate critically and analytically what is known of models, approaches, theories and ideas that focus on the role of the senior manager.
Middle Leadership Development
The aim of this course is to develop knowledge, understanding and a critical perspective – based on evidence from the literature, inspection and the course members’ own research – of the qualities and strategies required by senior (e.g. deputies, vice-principals) and middle managers (e.g. heads of department, faculty, service) to improve the quality of teaching and learning and to raise standards in their areas of responsibility. In particular, this module focuses on the changing roles, responsibilities and professional development of deputies, middle managers and senior management teams (or leadership groups), in schools and other educational organisations. Consequently, there will be a particular focus on shared or distributed leadership and leadership for learning. The assignment will be an analysis of an observation you will undertake in this area, the precise focus of which is for course members to decide.
Working with the Ministry of Secondary Education in Promoting the National Professional Qualification Educational Leaders and Managers
The Cameroon Council for Educational Leadership and Management Studies is working with The Ministry of Secondary Education for the training and accreditation program for establishment heads and their deputy in general secondary education empower leaders and aspiring leaders to create conditions for change, embedding evidence-informed teaching and learning in the classroom, department, and school.
We hope to support teachers taking their first steps into specialist leadership roles. We support practitioners towards mastery of relevant expertise, giving them the knowledge and tools to develop others and extend their influence beyond their own classrooms.
The President of CCELMS, Professor Ebot Ashu received an Invitation from the Ministry of Secondary Education to design Training and Accreditation Program for Establishment Heads and their Deputy in General Secondary Education. We guide experienced and aspiring leaders through learning that examines the five layers of influence: C1: Education and ethics (ET01), C2: Administration and management (AR02), C3: leadership/Vision/prospective (LVP03), C4: Partnership and sustainable development (PA04), C5: Profession and training (MEF05)
Our Early Principalship Coaching Offer will help new Principals to embed the learning from the Ministry of Secondary Education, share and receive peer support, gain confidence and achieve early success in their role.
Business Start-Up and Entrepreneurship
Providing the moral support to our clients in setting up and manage your own business? Or perhaps you’re already in business and would like some help to grow; this qualification is ideal for anyone, or students in either secondary or further education with some experience as entrepreneur are usually their own boss with lots of confidence and marketing and sales and management experience. Often, they are lunched into a entrepreneurship career with little or no experience. This is clearly a recipe for disaster, as often the best entrepreneur is unable to explain their route to success. Without the necessary development many are unable to develop a business or a sales marketing plan and can be lost to the business due to perceived failure in their new role.
Research and Publications (Education Leadership and Management Studies)
CCELMS was pivotal in establishing, creating and expanding in the field of sustainable leadership development. CCELMS members are deeply involved in scholarly research and publication. CCELMS members would be dedicated to documenting current issues on sustainable development and establishing an online resource platform available to researchers, professionals, faculties, and the public. Our objective is to engage in sustainable leadership and to inform policy makers officials and the public regarding issues of interest to CCELMS and partners.
Employment and Training
We offer a comprehensive set of role based and performance oriented training courses that increase skills and awareness about senior leadership, middle leadership, Busine start-up and entrepreneurship, leading organisational change, leading team’s efficiency, diversity, equity, inclusion and social justice, managing educational change, human and material resources management and strategic management. We use online platform for electronic training courses and distance learning courses with proven and effective methodology for teaching and training of our customers
Governance & Democracy Initiative
This initiative seeks to improve citizen participation in the political and policy process, to reduce the leakages in the management of public resources and to increase state capacity. GDI also strikes to promote the building of robust democratic institutions, expanding the policy space and enhancing cooperation among various institutions.
We perform this role by creating an enabling environment through the organization of policy forums, workshops, debates and the promotion of scholarly activities.
Sustainable Development Program
The Sustainable Development Program is concerned with issues and policies that will ensure equitable economic growth today and for future generations. The program tackles the building blocks for the economy, including but not limited to quality education, peace building, private-sector growth as well as government policies to spur economic growth in Cameroon and Africa.
The program places significant emphasis on building bridges with local, national and international stakeholders and in enhancing partnerships with various civil society organizations and development partners. We will continue to examine ways through which technological innovation can be translated into wealth creation for a vast majority of Africans.
We measure our social impact by the number of lives that we positively influence. By continually assessing our social return on investment (SROI) we ensure that projects are pursued that have the potential of helping the most people and can create opportunities for many more.
Main objective of the strategic plan
The main goal of the strategic plan is to strengthen the organisation’s ability to acquire, collecting and creating reliable useful information about sustainability and sustainable development in a professional way. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals emphasise that innovation and intersectoral cooperation are prerequisites for economic growth and development. In this Strategic Plan, the CCELMS plans to work strategically in four ways to achieve the best possible results:
- CONTINUE TO DRIVE PERFORMANCE AND TRASFORMATION
- EMPOWER COMMUNITIES TO CREATE DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE PLACES WHERE PEOPLE ARE PROUD TO LIVE
- LEADERSHIP FOR QUALITY EDUCATION
- LEADERSHIP FOR POVERTY REDUCTION
- LEADERSHIP FOR GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
- LEADERSHIP FOR GENDER EQUALITY
- LEADERSHIP FOR DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
- LEADERSHIP FOR PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS
- LEADERSHIP FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
- LEADERSHIP TO REDUCE INEQUALITIES
- CULTIVATE TALENT FOR FUTURE GENERATION
- IMPROVE FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY
- PARTNERSHIP MODEL
CONTINUE TO DRIVE PERFORMANCE AND TRASFORMATION: We aim to become a thoroughly modern organisation, able to succinctly demonstrate the value of our work to all stakeholders through good use of data and digital platforms that meet the needs of our members. We will ensure that Supporting Communities continues to be governed in line with the Code of Good Governance.
EMPOWER COMMUNITIES TO CREATE DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE PLACES WHERE PEOPLE ARE PROUD TO LIVE: We will improve students and scholars’ engagement and community learning practices in Cameroon and Africa as a whole so that people have a say in decisions that affect their learning needs. We will also continue championing digital inclusion, working directly with groups and individuals to gain the digital skills needed to be active participants in today’s society. We will work to support the creation of community-owned social enterprises that support and sustain jobs and meet needs.
LEADERSHIP FOR QUALITY EDUCATION: Research shows that good school leadership contributes to student success. Leadership for Quality Schooling will be of interest to educational practitioners, students, researchers, academics and policymakers. Successful educational leaders tend to be people who can evaluate past challenges and policies where they work and develop a better way forward.
LEADERSHIP FOR POVERTY REDUCTION: To emphasize the importance and role of leadership for African growth, development, and poverty reduction. We are interested about projects capable of demonstrating how leadership impacts on local poverty alleviation.
LEADERSHIP FOR GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING: Self-care and resilience are important, but they’re not enough. Support true employee wellbeing with CCELMS keys to wellbeing and leadership. This innovative programme is designed to enable leaders across all sectors to integrate health and wellbeing into their working environments
LEADERSHIP FOR GENDER EQUALITY: Our leadership workshop aims to addressing the gender gaps in leadership by providing dialogue and strengthen capacity and knowledge of managers and organizational leaders to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment.
LEADERSHIP FOR DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: Provides research insights that can support policymaking towards the achievement of inclusive and sustainable economic growth can lead to new and better employment opportunities and provide greater economic security for all.
LEADERSHIP FOR PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS: We cannot hope for sustainable development without peace, stability, human rights and effective governance, based on the rule of law. We provide training and learning materials promoting peace and justice – together with fostering effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions – is a decisive challenge across the globe.
LEADERSHIP FOR CLIMATE CHANGE: The Climate Leader is an introductory training series in systems thinking to help fuel the global response to climate change. We create and share resources that influence the policy process so as to get adaptation policies accepted and implemented; (2) enhance connectivity across different policy-making levels, sectors, and actors; (3) enhance the capacity of society to learn in response to feedback from the natural system. Our learning materials sets out the qualities and approaches needed by leaders to successfully develop and implement climate change mitigation and adaptation policies.
LEADERSHIP TO REDUCE INEQUALITIES: In an era of diminished economic opportunity for the middle and working classes, there is a desperate need for responsive leadership. Advocating for strong leadership and good governance, two essentials for reductions in poverty and inequalities.
CULTIVATE TALENT FOR FUTURE GENERATION: People are our best resource, so we plan to invest in providing them with the skills and experience required for the future. We want to nurture talent and find ways to retain high performers, equipping our current and future leaders to take us forward. We aim to create an inclusive work environment representative of the communities we serve.
IMPROVE FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY: We will create a robust financial plan that secures existing income streams and uses resources effectively to ensure we are in the strongest position to make our mission and vision possible. We also intend to reduce our carbon footprint by leading by example and helping community groups and organisations to work towards a net zero goal.
PARTNERSHIP MODEL: The implementation of the CCELMS Information Sharing Platform (CISP) is managed out with local partners. We believe this model contributes to cost effectiveness, cultural sensitivity and to a development approach adapted to the context. To promote sustainability, we believe it is important to find local solutions to local problems.
Partnerships is central to the realization of all the SDGs and is also at the core of achieving inclusive and sustainable industrial development. Partnerships are intrinsic for trade capacity development, technology transfer, finance for development, and private sector involvement. Indeed, the implementation of the SDGs requires partnerships with a strong country ownership and the alignment of inclusive and sustainable growth policies, public and private investments and societal goals. Only this combination will allow the high-impact services that the international community can bring to support nations in their progress towards 2030.